Atreus

Atreus steps out of Greek tragedy with a scarred sword hand. The mythic king of Mycenae, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, he gave his name to a cursed house whose saga stretches across Aeschylus and Homer. For centuries the name lived mostly in footnotes, until the 2018 God of War video game reintroduced it to millions as Kratos's young son. That resurrection sent it tearing up the American charts; it now sits at 494, one of the fastest-rising classical names of the decade. Greek in bone, modern in sound, and heavy with legend from the first syllable.