Hero (girl name)

[Eleanor90]

Do you like it? Does anyone know a Hero? I love it but it does feel like quite a bold choice!

It’s so hard though isn’t it as if she turns out to be a really striking, artsy, alternative, feisty young woman and you named her something safe and “acceptable” instead of Hero which you loved, you’d kind of be kicking yourself (and probably so would she). Equally if she was the shy and reserved studious kind, Hero would be a bit of a nightmare to live with. If only we could foresee their future personalities and name them accordingly it would be darn sight easier

Don't like it

Nice, but no I would go for Hebe.

I thought Hero was a Greek Mythology boys name. Hera is the girls name.

No. Hero is not the male counterpart of Hera. Hera is a Greek goddess, Hero was a priestess or Aphrodite.

I think it’s a fabulous name for a girl.

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Yes I would absolutely love to be called Hero! My name is so boring.

I think it’s Ok but put off by the fact Myleene Klass used it

Bold and interesting. The right person could carry it off. Also could be a short form for Hermione.

Lol my dogs name is Hero 😂😂😂

I loved it, but exh didn't allow me to use it.

Doesn't Myleene Klass have one?

I know one but it's too masculine for
my liking. .

I absolutely frigging love it. I love the Greek roots, I love the sound, I love names that end in o, I love the ‘oddness’ of it - I even love the connection to the English word.

Sadly, as this thread shows, other people aren’t so positive about it and as such I doubt I would be brave enough to use it on a child. I would LOVE this name for myself though!

I prefer Hera. I think Hero would be setting a person up for lots of tiresome gags about their name. 'holding out for a Hero' 'don't be a Hero' etc.

Fatniss Yes to all of that!

Not a fan

Think it’s awful, sorry.

I really like it. It’s a girl’s name. Greek myths. Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite. Leander famously swam the Hellespont for her. It’s one of the great poetic stories. But not sure I’d be brave enough to use it.

I really love it but in the end I didn't use it because I felt it might be a big name to saddle someone with. I felt if DD was shy and quiet it would be hard to pull off a name like Hero. In the end we called her Juno.

Meant to add - we called DD Juno and everyone thinks it's too masculine, so I dread to think what people would have said if we had used Hero. (I still love it though and would use it as a middle name if we ever had another DD)

I really like it!

I don't mind the sound of it but I would be so embarrassed if it was my name. I feel that way about all kinds of virtue/positive noun names. I think it's because I think people would assume that I feel that way about myself and must be arrogant. Which is ridiculous because people don't generally name themselves. But I'd still worry about it.

If you were going for the Shakespeare connection then Hero is actually a fairly ridiculous character. I've played her. She goes into a near deathlike coma at the mere suggestion that she might have had sex with a man she was not yet married to.

I went to school with a Japanese boy called Hero, I’ve never heard it as a girls name

We used it for DD1 middle name. I love that as she never needs to tell anyone but her proper full name is Name Hero iyswim, like Anna Hero which I think is cool. It is her secret that she is really "Name Hero"

Plus the priestess was pretty cool imo.

The Shakespeare character never occurred to me, and I know the play! I’m surprised people don’t know the Greek myth, though, or know that Hero is female. I would have assumed it was as well known as other romantic stories - like Romeo and Juliet, Heloise and Abelard, Hero and Leander, etc.

I LOVE it