Ulysses as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ulysses

What is the meaning of the name Ulysses ?

The baby name Ulysses is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced yoo-LISS-eez.

Ulysses is Greek, Latin in Origin.

Ulysses is the English form of Latin Ulixēs or Ulyssēs, the Roman rendering of Greek Odysseús, attested in Homer’s epics as Ὀδυσσεύς. The Greek name has no secure Indo-European etymology; ancient explanation connected it with odýssomai, to be angry with or hate, giving the conventional sense wrathful or one who is hated.

In Roman literature Ulysses names the Ithacan hero of the Odyssey, and Renaissance and later English writers often favored the Latin form, including Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. French Ulysse, Spanish Ulises, Italian Ulisse, and Portuguese Ulisses reflect the same tradition. In the United States, Ulysses gained civic associations after Union general and president Ulysses S. Grant; James Joyce’s 1922 novel later fixed it in modernist literary context. American usage has since become uncommon.