Names Honoring Pagan Deities

Aditya -Aditya is Sanskrit. It means "Belonging to Aditi". It is a collective name for the Hindu Gods that are known as the children of the mother Goddess Aditi.

Adrasteia -Adrasteia is a Greek name and an epithet of Nemesis. It means "the inescapable one" or "one who cannot be turned.".

Aerona -Feminized version of Aeron, the Welsh God of War whose name was derived from the British Goddess of Slaughter Agrona

Aesir -The Æsir is the principle race of Gods in Norse mythology
It is a plural word, áss being the sigular. (or ǫ́ss, ás)
feminine ásynja, feminine plural ásynjur

Agrona -Agrona is an old Celtic name meaning "battle, slaughter". It was the name of the Brythonic Goddess of war and death.

Ala -Mother Goddess and guardian of societal law of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria. She who creates the living and rules the dead being a Goddess of fertility and Queen of the Underworld. Her symbol is the crescent moon.

Alfdis -Álfdís is a Norse name meaning "immortal woman". The world alfr means "elf". The ending -dis means "goddess or female guardian spirit"

Amadioha -The Ibo God of thunder and the sky.

Amaretat -Ameretat is the name of the Zorastrian Goddess of plants and long life. Amardad is another version of the same. The name means "immortality".

Amaterasu -Amaterasu is the Shinto sun Goddess. Her name means "shining over heaven".

Ammon -Ammon is an Greco-Egyptian name meaning hidden or "the hidden one"

Amun -Amun or Amon is one of the most important ancient Egyptian Gods

Amunet -Amunet is a girl's name of ancient Egyptian origin and the name of the consort of the God Amun. The name means "The hidden one".

Anahita -Persian Goddess of water and fertility. The name means "pure" or "undefiled".

Ananse -Anansi is the African and Carribean trickster and spider God. The stories are believed to have originated with the Ashanti in Ghana.

Andraste -Boudicca invoked the Goddess Andraste before her revolt against Rome. The name means "invincible".

Anona -From the Latin meaning "pineapple". The name relates to a Goddess concerned with watching over supplies and provisions.

Aphrodite -Aphrodite is the name of the Greek Goddess of passion and desire. Her name means "risen from the sea foam".

Apollo -Apollo is the name of the Greek God of prophecy, poetry, enlightenment and medicine. He leads the choir of muses. The name means "apple" or perhaps "destroy".

Ares -Ares is the Greek God of violent war. The name means "battle strife".

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