Meaning & Origin
a male given name
Ulisses is a boy's baby name of Greek origin via Latin, the Portuguese and Spanish form of Ulysses — the Latin name for the Greek hero Odysseus, whose name may mean 'one who is wrathful' or 'to be hated.' Odysseus was the cunning Greek hero of Homer's Odyssey, whose ten-year journey home from Troy became the archetype of all epic adventures.
James Joyce's landmark novel Ulysses (1922) reimagined Odysseus's journey in a single day in Dublin, cementing the name in literary history. Ulisses carries millennia of intellectual and adventurous heritage.