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Gender Masculine
Scripts Ἡρακλείδης(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Means "son of Herakles" in Greek, derived from the name of the mythic hero Herakles combined with the patronymic suffix ἴδης (ides). This was the name of a 4th-century BC Greek astronomer who theorized the rotation of the earth.