Meaning: Its source is Arnthor, an Ancient Germanic name meaning "Thor, the eagle."

Nickname For: Arthur

Narrative: Other possible sources include an Irish Gaelic word meaning ''stone''; Artorius, a Latin family name; and artos, the Celtic word for ''bear.''

Scholars believe the most famous bearer of this name, King Arthur, was really an ancient Celtic chieftain whose story was embellished and romanticized centuries after his death. The real facts may interest us, but they could never compete with the Knights of the Round Table, the sword Excalibur, Guinevere and Lancelot, the quest for the Holy Grail, and the many other Arthurian legends that have been told and re-told for the last thousand years.