How popular is your favorite Greek divinity?

Greek mythology is popular. But how popular? And who is more popular than whom?

Breakfast with Pandora is here to tell you.

While working on my project on the Myers-Briggs personality system and Greek divinities, I googled Poseidon and noticed he had 33.6 million hits. I thought, well, that has to be among the most. Only Zeus would have more. Actually, not.

Herewith find a list of the 15 "official" Olympian divinities and their Google hits as of today. The results may surprise you.

I searched for the name alone. The numbers are in millions of hits.

Apollo                       209
Hermes                     200
Athena                        134
Ares                             112
Zeus                             82.7
Artemis                        47
Hera                             34.2
Poseidon                     33.6
Hades                           32.5
Aphrodite                   30.4
Demeter                       15.3
Hephaestus                12.3
Persephone                9.2
Dionysus                       5.1
Hestia                            1.25

I thought for sure Zeus would be #1, but I didn't take into account that Apollo and Hermes are very recognizable brand names now.

If you put "greek god" or "greek goddess" after the names, the hits go down considerably (again listed in millions of hits):

Zeus                             2.35
Apollo                        1.830
Athena                       1.030
Aphrodite                   0.966
Artemis                        0.853
Hera                             0.605
Hermes                       0.570
Hades                          0.555
Ares                             0.538
Demeter                       0.453
Hephaestus                0.261
Dionysus                     0.355
Persephone                0.231
Poseidon                     0.217
Hestia                            0.187

And, as I thought, the more traditional names go to the top, with Zeus comfortably at #1.