Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity — one of the Twelve Olympians; twin sister of Apollo; daughter of Zeus and Leto. Her temple at Ephesus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The NASA Artemis program (announced 2017) — the US-led international space program aiming to return humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 (1972) — and to land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface; Artemis I (uncrewed, 2022) completed a 25-day lunar mission; Artemis II (crewed lunar flyby, scheduled 2026) will include the first woman on a deep-space mission (Christina Koch); Artemis III is scheduled to return humans to the lunar South Pole. Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer's bestselling YA series (2001-2012); over 25 million copies sold worldwide; Disney+ film (2020). Artemisia I of Caria — 5th-century BCE Greek queen and naval commander at the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE) — Xerxes I praised her as the best of his commanders. The name has surged in modern US naming since 2015 as a powerful classical-goddess revival.
Featured throughout Greek mythology and modern space exploration.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Artemis reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.