Save Gender Masculine Usage Ancient Greek Scripts Ἀρχίδαμος(Ancient Greek) Meaning & History The first element of this name is either derived from Greek ἀρχός (archos) "master" or from Greek ἀρχή (arche) "origin, source". The second element is derived from δᾶμος (damos) "the people", which is a Doric Greek variant of δῆμος (demos).