Drop your ancient name ideas here 
Preferably outlandish. Bonus points for masculine names that don’t end in -us, haha!
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Bélisaire
Mathildor
Sigefroy
Vincerf
Tinéas
Symphorine
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For girls, my favorites are [name_f]Cleopatra[/name_f] (somewhat usable), Oochigeaskw (definitely unusable) and Enheduanna (somewhere in the middle). [name_f]My[/name_f] absolute favorite is [name_f]Boudicca[/name_f], which I have in my UC as a middle!
For boys:
Gawain 
Gilgamesh
[name_m]Sargon[/name_m]
Hammurabi
[name_m]Genghis[/name_m]
[name_m]Tamerlane[/name_m] (love the sound)
[name_u]Seth[/name_u]
[name_m]Adam[/name_m]
[name_m]Timur[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
Hephaestion
[name_u]George[/name_u]
Other girls:
Olympias
[name_f]Roxana[/name_f]
[name_f]Eve[/name_f]
[name_u]Artemis[/name_u]
[name_f]Avalon[/name_f]
[name_f]Ella[/name_f]
[name_f]Alia[/name_f] (the Germanic name)
[name_f]Aaliyah[/name_f]
Amalswintha
[name_f]Deborah[/name_f]
I was about to tell you to ask @ethelmary until I realized who made this post 
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Does biblical count? If so (not all are biblical)
Asenath
[name_f]Eupraxia[/name_f]
[name_f]Bathsheba[/name_f]
Clydri
Aveza
Godesa
[name_m]Zephaniah[/name_m]
Ravelin
Wistan
[name_f]Zipporah[/name_f]
[name_m]Zebedee[/name_m]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
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Ancient Near Eastern names are probably the oldest names on record.
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Maybe you like some of the names from this topic:
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The oldest [known] recorded name is Kushim from about 3400 to 3000 BCE. He was an accountant from what is now modern day southern Iraq.
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