 Sculpture of Hektor being brought back to Troy, dating from c.180–200 CE. | |
| Gender | Masculine |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Greek |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "to have", "to hold", "to check", "restrain" |
| Region of origin | Greece, England, France, Scotland, Spain |
| Other names | |
| Derived | Hektor |
| Related names | Eachann; Hector (surname), Heitor |
Hector (/ˈhɛktər/) is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the name of Hektor, a legendary Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. The name Hektor is probably derived from the Greek ékhein, meaning "to have", "to hold", "to check", "restrain". In Scotland, the name Hector is sometimes an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic Eachann, and the pet form Heckie is sometimes used. The name of Sir Ector, the foster father of King Arthur, is also a variant of the same.
Etymology
In Greek, Héktōr is a derivative of the verb ἔχειν ékhein, archaic form *ἕχειν, hékhein ('to have' or 'to hold'), from Proto-Indo-European *seɡ́ʰ- ('to hold'). Héktōr, or Éktōr as found in Aeolic poetry, is also an epithet of Zeus in his capacity as 'he who holds '. Hector's name could thus be taken to mean 'holding fast'.
Cognates
- Irish: Eachtar
- Italian: Ettore
- Portuguese: Heitor
- Greek: Modern Greek: Έκτορας (Ectoras), Ancient Greek: Ἕκτωρ (Hector)
People with the name
- Hector Gottfried Masius (1653–1709), German Lutheran theologian
- Hector Abhayavardhana (1919–2012), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist politician
- Hector Appuhamy, Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Puttalam District
- Hector Arawwawala, Governor of North Western Province, Sri Lanka from July 1994–January 1995
- Héctor Ávila, Dominican boxer
- Héctor Ballesteros, Colombian weightlifter
- Héctor Bellerín, Spanish football (soccer) player
- Hector Boece, a Scottish philosopher and historian
- Hector Berlioz, French composer
- Hector (Toe) Blake, Canadian hall of fame hockey player and coach
- Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
- Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
- Héctor Castaño, Colombian road cyclist
- Hector Charlesworth, Canadian writer, editor and critic
- Hector Crawford, Australian radio and television producer
- Hector de Zayas, U.S. Marine Corps officer and Navy Cross recipient
- Hector Deheragoda, Solicitor General of Sri Lanka from 1970-1972
- Héctor del Curto, Argentine tango bandoneon player
- Héctor Delgado, reggaeton artist
- Héctor Elizondo, Puerto Rican-American actor
- Héctor Ferri, Ecuadorian football (soccer) player
- Hector Halsall, English rugby league footballer with Swinton RLFC in the 1920s
- Hector A. Hanson, American farmer and politician
- Hector Hetherington, Scottish philosopher
- Héctor King, Mexican recording artist
- Hector Kobbekaduwa, Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer and politician
- Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer
- Hector Lombard, Cuban-Australian mixed martial artist
- Hector Munro Macdonald, Scottish mathematician
- Hector Carsewell Macpherson, Scottish writer and journalist
- Héctor Moreno (footballer), Mexican football (soccer) player
- Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar, a Scottish-born British soldier who became the ninth Commander-in-Chief, India
- Hector Hugh Munro, British writer who used the pseudonym Saki
- Héctor Noguera, Chilean television, film and theatre actor
- Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics
- Hector Ó hEochagáin, Irish radio and television presenter
- Héctor Palacio, Colombian road racing cyclist
- Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet
- Héctor Soto, Puerto Rican volleyball player
- Héctor Thomas, Venezuelan decathlete
- Héctor Timerman, Argentine foreign minister
- Hector Tyndale, American military officer
- Héctor Velásquez, Chilean boxer
- Héctor Vilches, Uruguayan football (soccer) player
Arthurian legend
Fictional characters
- Monomial characters
- Hector, minor character in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Hector (Ambrosia Mascot), parrot, unofficial mascot of games company Ambrosia Software
- Hector (Castlevania), from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
- Hector (Fire Emblem), from the Fire Emblem video game franchise
- Hector (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
- Hector: Fat Arse of the Law, in the adventure video game Hector: Badge of Carnage
- Hector, a polite robot of the father and son android pair Hector and Vector in "Greetings from Earth" (1979), an episode of the Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
- Hector, the evil robot in the film Saturn 3
- Monomial with descriptor
- Hector the Bulldog, in Looney Tunes cartoons
- Hector the Cat, a mascot for the teaching of road safety to children in Australia
- Hector the Dog, in the British children's television series Hector's House
- Binomial characters
- Hector Alembick, character from King Ottokar's Sceptre
- Hector Barbossa, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series
- Hector Bowen, aka Prospero the Enchanter, from the novel The Night Circus
- Hector Casagrande, a character from the American animated series The Casagrandes and The Loud House
- Hector Doyle from the manga and anime series Baki
- Hector Cruz, from the American animated television series Ozzy & Drix
- Hector "Hec" Faulkner, a character from the film Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Hector Flanagan, a character from the American animated series Sanjay and Craig
- Hector Garcia, a character from Zits
- Hector Gonzales, in the film For Your Eyes Only
- Hector Hall, a DC Comics character
- Hector Hammond, a DC Comics supervillain.
- Hector "High Five" Nieves, one of the two main characters in the animated web television series Glitch Techs.
- Hector Ricardo, a minor character in the Lorien Legacies series
- Hector Salamanca, a character in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
- Héctor Rivera, a character in the film Coco
- Hector Ruiz, from the American television series The Electric Company
- Hector Williams, one of the main characters in the American television show The Unit
- Hector "Zero" Zeroni, a character in the novel Holes and its film adaption
- Polynomial characters
- Hector Con Carne, the main character from the American animated series Evil Con Carne
See also
- Hector (disambiguation), other things named Hector on Misplaced Pages
• Orthodox Church celebrating Saint Hector
References
- "Hector: name meaning and origin". BabyCentre UK.
- ^ A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. 1996. ISBN 0-19-280050-7.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Brill Publishers. p. 399. ISBN 978-90-04-17418-4.
- This etymology is given under "Hector" in the Online Etymological Dictionary, which, if true, would make it an Indo-European name, of root *seĝh-. The Dardanians would not have been Greek, but the language of the city of Troy is still an open question.
- Woulfe, Patrick; Slevin, Gerard (1974). Irish names for children (Revised ed.). Gill and Macmillan. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7171-0697-4.
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