35%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Ancient Greek [1] Scripts Ἡρακλείδης(Ancient Greek) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Means "son of Herakles" in Greek, derived from the name of the mythic hero Herakles combined with the patronymic suffix ἴδης (ides). This was the name of a 4th-century BC Greek astronomer who theorized the rotation of the earth. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details RootsHerakles + idesVariantHeraclides Sources & References Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ἡρακλείδης&facet-nymRef=῾Ηρακλείδης.
