Odysseus is the Greek hero of Homer's Odyssey, the king of Ithaca whose ten-year journey home from Troy gave us the word odyssey. The name's origin is uncertain; Homer himself links it to the verb odyssomai, so it is usually explained as "wrathful" or "hated". In the United States Odysseus is a bold mythological choice that reached number 2828 in 2020 and stands at number 2870 in 2025 with 44 births.