At a Glance
- Meaning
- (romantic) love, desire
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Gender
- Boy
- Pronunciation
- AIR-ahs
Eros is an Ancient Greek boy's name meaning “(romantic) love, desire”. It appears in 3 of our baby name lists.
Meaning & Origin of Eros
Meaning: (romantic) love, desire.
Origin: Ancient Greek.
A common claim: Popularly pictured as a cherubic baby shooting love arrows, like Cupid Actually: That chubby-cherub image comes from later Roman/Renaissance art of Cupid; in the earliest Greek sources (e.g. Hesiod) Eros was a powerful primordial deity, not a child.
Source: Wiktionary, Wikipedia.
How to Pronounce Eros
AIR-ahsIPA /ˈɛrɑːs/
Popularity of Eros
Lists That Include Eros
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