Antiochus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos), notably borne by the thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Antiochus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2Mas Antioco(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- FRFrance≈1 in 38M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Antiochus itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
168 named Antioco, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Antioco in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos), notably borne by the thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Antiochus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 168as Antioco | 1 in 2M | 168 | Antioco | 83 |
| ES Spain | 21as Antioco | 1 in 2.4M | 23 | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 38M | 10 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2as Antioco | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1as Antioco | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
168 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Antiochus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, son of Heracles; ancient Syrian kings
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antiochus I Theos of Commageneb. 86king of Commagene from the Armenian Orontid dynasty
- Antiochus IX Cyzicenusb. 135ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom
- Antiochus VI Dionysusb. 148Seleucid ruler
- Antiochus VII Sidetesb. 159TRking of Seleucid Empire from 138 to 129 BC
- Antiochus V Eupatorb. 173ruler of Seleucid Empire from 164 to 161 BC
- Antiochus X Eusebesb. 200king of Syria
- Antiochus IV Epiphanesb. 215king of the Seleucid Empire (175–164 BC)
- Antiochus III the Greatb. 242IRsixth Seleucid emperor (223–187 BC)
- Antiochus II Theosb. 286SYking of Seleucid Empire from 261 BC to 246 BC
- Antiochus I Soterb. 324SYRuler of the Seleucid Empire from 281 to 261 BC
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Antiochus mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos), notably borne by the thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Antiochus a male or female name?
- Antiochus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Antiochus?
- In the etymology graph, Antioco is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Antiochus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 168 people named Antioco, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Antiochus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Antiochus is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Antiochus?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Antiochus in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antiochusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Antiochus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.