Aristophanes

Locally spelled Aristofanis in GR Greece, CY Cyprus, US United States and 1 more.

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.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Aristophanes is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Dominican Republic

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Aristofanes, Aristófanes

• German given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany

  Also written Aristophanēs

• Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia

  Also written Aristofanes, Aristófanes

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Aristophanés

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Aristophanes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, a male given name, Aristophanes, from Ancient Greek — famously held by:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• Aristophanes of Byzantiumb. 257EGthird-century BC Greek literary scholar and grammarian in Alexandria
• Aristophanesb. 448GRClassical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
• Aristophanes Georgioub. 1955CYCypriot politician

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).

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Aristophanes mean, and where does it come from?

Greek comic playwright Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.

Is Aristophanes a male or female name?

Aristophanes is a female 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.

Which countries have the most people named Aristophanes?

Mondonomo estimates about 121 people named Aristofanis in Greece, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Cyprus, Brazil, United States and Latvia; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Aristophanes most common?

No national register we hold counts the spelling Aristophanes itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 51 thousand people named Αριστοφανης.

How common is the name Aristophanes?

In Cyprus, the national register counted 25 people named Αριστοφανης in 2011, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.