First name origin & meaning: Greek: Manly First name variations: Apollos, Apolo, Apolonio, Appollo Last name origin & meaning: Italian and Spanish: from the Greek personal name
Apollo. There are several saints Apollo in the Christian
Church, including an Egyptian hermit and monastic leader who died in
395 ad. The personal name derives from the name in classical
mythology of the sun god, Apollo, an ancient Indo-European
name, found for example in Hittite as Apulana ‘god of the gate’
(from pula ‘gate’, cognate with Greek pylē),
therefore ‘protector’, ‘patron’. This name appears in the following lists:
Greek and Roman Gods,
Saints
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