Hero

Hero is a given name of Ancient Greek origin meaning "hero." It is sometimes transliterated in English as Hērō (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώ). The Ancient Greeks pronounced it hay-rō, while English speakers pronounce it HEER-o. The feminine name is sometimes given in reference to the Ancient Greek myth of Hero and Leander or to the character in William Shakespeare's 1599 play Much Ado About Nothing. A modernized Greek version of the name is Iro (Ηρώ).
The masculine name is a Latinized Greek form of the Greek name Heron (Ἥρων).
The name Hero has seen occasional use for both boys and girls in the English-speaking world. In 2010, the name was given to six newborn American girls and to 22 American boys. In 2011, the name was given to 12 newborn girls in the United States and to 15 newborn boys. It is also in occasional use in other English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom.
Hiro, a Japanese name with multiple meanings that became more widely known following the appearance of Hiro Nakamura, a character on the 2006-2010 American television series Heroes, was given to 23 newborn American boys in 2010 and to 20 American boys in 2011. The Japanese male character's first name was intended as a play on the English word "hero".

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1955, the New York City term for a sandwich elsewhere called submarine, grinder, poor boy (New Orleans), or hoagie (Philadelphia); origin unknown, perhaps so called for its great size (from hero (n.1)), or a folk-etymology alteration of Greek gyro as a type of sandwich.

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Greek name derived form the word heros, means: hero. In mythology, this is the name of the lover of Leandros (Latin Leander).

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Hero Alom	1985	Model, Actor
2	Chris Hero	1979	American professional wrestler
3	Hero of Alexandria	0010	Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
4	Hero Fiennes-Tiffin	1997	English actor
5	Hero Angeles	1984	Filipino actor
6	Hero Muller	1938	Dutch actor
7	Hero Ibrahim Ahmed	1948	First Lady of Iraq
8	Hero Cruz
9	Hero		Singer
10	Hyro Da Hero	1987	Rapper
11	Hero Brinkman	1964	Dutch politician and police officer
12	Hero of Byzantium		Name used to refer to the anonymous Byzantine author of two treatises
13	Peter deCourcy Hero	1942	American philanthropy consultant and former foundation and college president
14	Little Hero	1972	Jamaican reggae singer
15	Hero Bautista
16	Hero Oomkens von Esens	1500	Count of Harlingerland
17	Hero Brahms	1941
18	Julia Hero	1992	German volleyball player
19	George A. Hero
20	Hero Schall	1942	German university teacher
21	Hero Schomerus	1816	Dutch politician
22	Hero Diedrich Hillerns	1807
23	Hero Hokwerda	1949
24	Hero fan Yntema	1576
25	Hero Galema