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Galaton Γαλάτων m Ancient Greek
Galaton was an ancient Greek painter.

Galenus m Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of Galenos.

Genesios Γενέσιος m Ancient Greek
Original Greek and modern Greek form of Genesius.

Glaucippus m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Glaukippos. This name was borne by two eponymous archons of Athens, the earliest of which lived in the 5th century BC.

Glaucon m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Glaukon. This name was borne by a brother of the famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato (4th century BC).

Glaukias Γλαυκίας m Ancient Greek, History
Ancient Greek form of the Roman cognomen Glaucia. Glaukias (ruled 335 – c. 302 BC) was a ruler of the Taulantian kingdom which dominated southern Illyrian affairs in the second half of the 4th century BC.

Glaukippos Γλαύκιππος m Ancient Greek
The first element of this name is derived from Greek γλαυκός (glaukos), which can mean "blue-grey, bluish grey" as well as "gleaming, bright". Also compare the given name Glaukos (see Glaucus)... [more]

Glaukon Γλαύκων m Ancient Greek
Derived from Greek γλαυκός (glaukos), which can mean "blue-grey, bluish grey" as well as "gleaming, bright". Also compare the given name Glaukos (see Glaucus).

Gnosis Γνῶσις m Ancient Greek
Means "knowledge" in Greek. The inscription Gnosis epoesen "Gnosis created" appears on the Stag Hunt mosaic (c. 300 BCE; found in a wealthy home in ancient Macedonia), which may indicate that the author was named Gnosis or possibly refers to an abstract pronoun, since gnosis is also the Greek word for knowledge (one scholar, for example, thinks it should be read as "Apelles' Knowledge Made It")... [more]

Gobryas Γοβρύας, Γωβρύης m Old Persian (Hellenized), Ancient Greek, History
Hellenized form of Gaubaruva. This name was borne by several Persian noblemen; one of them was both the father-in-law as well as the brother-in-law of Darius the Great.

Gordias Γορδίας m Ancient Greek
Means "city" from Phrygian Gordum. This was the name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia.

Gorgiás m Ancient Greek (Magyarized)
Hungarian form of Gorgias.

Gorgias Γοργίας m Ancient Greek
Gorgias (c. 485 – c. 380 BC) was a Greek sophist, philosopher and rhetorician.

Gorgidas Γοργίδας m Ancient Greek
Means "son of Gorgias/Gorgos" in Greek, derived from the name Gorgias or Gorgos combined with ίδας (idas), which is the Aeolic and Doric Greek form of the patronymic suffix ἴδης (ides).... [more]

Gorgippos Γόργιππος m Ancient Greek
The first element of this name is derived from either the Greek adjective γοργός (gorgos) meaning "grim, fierce, terrible" or the Greek verb γοργεύω (gorgeuo) meaning "to move rapidly, to hasten"... [more]

Gorgippus m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Gorgippos. This was the name of a Spartocid king of the Bosporus (4th century BC).

Gorgon Γόργων m Ancient Greek, History (Ecclesiastical, Gallicized)
French form of Gorgonius (see Gorgonios).

Gorgonios Γοργόνιος m Ancient Greek
This name derives from the Ancient Greek “gorgos (γοργώ)”, meaning “dreadful, terrible, terrifying, very ugly, like a gorgon, relating to Gorgon”. ... [more]

Gorgonius Γοργόνιος m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Gorgonios. This was borne by 5 saints, including Gorgonius of Nicomedia, who was martyred in 304 during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Gorgos Γόργος m Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Derived from either the Greek adjective γοργός (gorgos) meaning "grim, fierce, terrible" or the Greek verb γοργεύω (gorgeuo) meaning "to move rapidly, to hasten". Also compare the Greek verb γοργόομαι (gorgoomai) meaning "to be spirited".

Gorgus m Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of Gorgos. In Greek mythology, this was the name of an uncle of king Periander of Corinth.

Graecus m Ancient Greek (Latinized), Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Roman
Latinized form of Graikos.

Graikos Γραικός m Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
An ethnonym for someone of Greek ethnicity, or a demonym for someone born in Greece, "an inhabitant of Graea".

Gregoras m Lithuanian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman
Lithuanian form of Gregory.

Gylippos Γύλιππος m Ancient Greek
The first element of this name is a bit uncertain. It might possibly be derived from Greek γύλιος (gylios), the name for a long-shaped pouch or knapsack that Greek soldiers used for carrying their food supplies (see Gylon)... [more]

Gylippus m Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Gylippos. This was the name of a Spartan general from the 5th century BC.

Gylon Γύλων m Ancient Greek
Possibly derived from Greek γύλιος (gylios), the name for a long-shaped pouch or knapsack that Greek soldiers used for carrying their food supplies.... [more]

Gyrton m Ancient Greek
In Greek mythology, Gyrton was a brother of Phlegyas, who built the town of Gyrton on the Peneius river, and from whom it received its name... [more]