I’d never thought of it before myself, but apparently, various traditions exist as to what the names of the three magi or the Three Wise Men who follow the Star of Bethlehem to find Jesus were. The Bible doesn’t specifically name them, but that never stopped anybody…

In Western Europe, they are: Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar.

Among Ethiopian Christians, they are: Hor, Basanater, Karsudan.

Syrians call them: Larvandad, Hormisdas, Gushnasaph.

Wikipedia goes into some etymology and origins of those names.

UPDATE!

One of my readers sent me the following tidbit in response to this post. Hope they don’t mind me posting it. I’d heard other things before this, about what the gifts of the wise men meant (I’ll have to look around for it though), but I like how this is phrased:

Also, I never knew this before, but I was reading in my Oxford Annotated Bible and it said the three wise men symbols of gold, frankincense and myrrh had to do with Jesus’s “royalty”, “death” (frankinsence was used to emalbm bodies I guess), and an “offering to a god” respectively. I just thought that was cool that the gifts actually meant something, and weren’t like a gift certificate to Borders book from an aunt you never talk to. But still, that would kind of suck that on your first birthday someone gave you a present that says “Welcome to earth, one day you’re gonna need this stuff to embalm your dead body. Have a nice life, sucker.”