'Titanium' was named in 1795 after the mythological Titans — a tribute to the metal's strength.
A chemical element (symbol Ti, atomic number 22), a strong, lightweight, corrosion-resistant silvery-grey metal used in aerospace, medical implants, and industrial applications.
Coined by the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1795, naming the element after the Titans (Τιτᾶνες, Titânes) of Greek mythology — the primordial gods of enormous strength and power who preceded the Olympians. Klaproth chose the name because the Titans represented elemental power and strength, qualities he associated with the new metal. Greek 'Titán' (Τιτάν) may derive from 'titaínō' (τιταίνω, to stretch, strain), or may be a pre-Greek word
Klaproth also named the element uranium, after the planet Uranus. He had a pattern of naming elements after mythological figures of cosmic power. The Titanic — the supposedly unsinkable ship — took its name from the same root, making its catastrophic sinking one of the great instances of nominative irony.