Forename Dionysius

Throughout the world, Dionysius (Dionysius , Дионисий , Διονύσιος ) is quite a rare predominantly male, but very seldom girly given name. The first name Dionysius is habitual in Greece, where it is quite a rare male name, Indonesia, where it is a rare largely male, but seldom girly name, and Russia, where it is a rare boy's name. Much less frequently, Dionysius is the last name as well as the forename.

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Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Dionysius

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Dionysius	Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, Australia, United States
Дионисий	Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
Διονύσιος	Greece

First names said to be same

Denez, Denis, Deniss, Dennis, Denys, Denís, Dienes, Dines, Dionigi, Dionisi, Dionisio, Dionisios, Dionizij, Dionizije, Dionizy, Dionyses, Dionysios, Dionysis, Dionysus, Dionís, Dionísio, Dionýz, Donis, Διονύσης, Дени, Денис, Денни, Деннис, Денька, Деня, Дені, Деніс, Дзяніс, Диня, Дионизий, Дионис, Дионисио, Дионисиос, Дионисиус, Дэн, Дэнис, Дэннис, Діонісій, דיוניסיוס, דיוניסיס, דניס, دنس, دنيس, دينيس, デニス,

First name Dionysius in the context

Dionysius is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Dionysius Thusman , the operatic character in the opera Die Brautwahl by Ferruccio Busoni.

Notable namesakes

	dionysius of halicarnassus Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric (c.60 BC – after 7 BC), TR (b. 60)
	dionysius the sophist poet with epigram in the Greek Anthology (b. 50)
	dionysius periegetes 2nd century AD Greek travel writer, EG (b. 100)
	dionysius sameumys ancient Olympic victor, EG (b. 100)
	dionysius thrax ancient Greek grammarian, EG (b. 170)
	dionysius of byzantium ancient Greek geographer (b. 200)
	papirius dionysius Roman eques, official and jurist (died c.190) (b. 150)
	dionysius of vienne Bishop of Vienne and missionary, FR (b. 200)
	dionysius of seleucia ancient wrestling Olympics victor, 149 CE (b. 200)
	dionysius cato author of distichs of Cato (b. 300)
	dionysius of cyzicus ancient Greek epigrammatist, TR (b. 250)
	dionysius von augsburg DE (b. 250)
	dionysius iambus Alexandrian grammarian, EG (b. 300)
	dionysius of samos ancient Greek historian (b. 300)
	dionysius of alexandria (b. 300)