Second, Saturn is the father of Jupiter in mythology, and Uranus’s Roman counterpart (Caelus) is the father of Saturn, making a neat hierarchy in the order of the planets.

Uranus was one of the earliest gods in Greek mythology. He was the god of the sky and the son/husband of Gaia, the mother of the Earth.

In Roman mythology, Saturn is the father of Jupiter, so the new planet used the Greek name for Saturn's father - Uranus. When another new planet was announced almost 100 years later, it was named ...

(Uranus is also the only planet to be named after a Greek god rather than a Roman one.) Bode's colleague, Martin Klaproth , supported his choice and named his newly discovered element "uranium." ...

Two years later, the planet was officially named Uranus after the Greek god of the sky. Herschel initially wanted to call the world Georgium Sidus after King George III but was overruled.