Atlas

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The name Atlas means “bearer of the heavens.” It comes from the Greek language tradition.

Atlas was the Titan in Greek mythology condemned to hold up the sky for eternity. The name evokes strength and endurance, and has rapidly climbed charts as parents gravitate toward bold mythological names.

From the Greek Ἄτλας. Wiktionary gives two possibilities and settles on neither: a copulative prefix joined to a verb meaning to bear, undergo or endure, or an origin outside Greek entirely. The bearer of the heavens reading follows the first.

In Greek myth Atlas is the Titan who holds up the sky. The Atlas Mountains take their name from him, on the belief that the range is his body turned to stone. Wikipedia notes the given name has increased in use recently for both sexes in the United States, alongside other mythological names, and has also risen in the United Kingdom.

• Atlas (Greek Titan)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (novel)
• Atlas Copco (industrial company)

Sibling names that share Atlas's rhythm and register without echoing it too closely.