Orestis

Orestis is the modern Greek form of Orestes, the tragic prince of the House of Atreus who avenged his father Agamemnon and was then pursued across the Greek world by the Furies. The root is oros, mountain — a name that means something like mountaineer or mountain-dweller, long before Aeschylus and Euripides loaded it with matricide and redemption. In contemporary Greece, Orestis is a solidly current name, carried without mythic weight by athletes, musicians, and ordinary schoolboys. Three syllables, oh-RES-tees, crisp at the center. It keeps a trace of the ancient drama, but wears it lightly, like a family crest half-remembered.