51%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Ancient Greek [1] Scripts Ἡρόδοτος(Ancient Greek) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Greek form of Herodotus. Related Names RootsHera + dotos Categories divine gift, gift, theophoric names Sources & References Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ἡρόδοτος&facet-nymRef=῾Ηρόδοτος.