Stavros
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek; 'cross'
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/stəvˈɹoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stavros is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K
- USUnited States1 in 246K
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 Stavros 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Σταυρος in GR Greece.
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)Greek; 'cross'
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Stavros 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #169 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 276 | Σταυρος | 161 |
| CY Cyprus | #106 | 3,980as Σταυρος | 1 in 318 | 4K | Stavros | 80 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | Stavros | 112 |
| US United States | — | 1,353 | 1 in 246K | 1.3K | Stavros | 223 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Stavros | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 235 | 1 in 43K | 235 | Stavros | 26 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Stavros | 29 |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Stavros 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, A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σταύρος (Stávros).
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stavros G. Livanosb. 1891GRGreek businessman (1891–1963)
- Stavros Niarchosb. 1909GRGreek businessman and art collector (1909–1996)
- Stavros Xenidisb. 1923GRGreek actor (1923–2008)
- Stavros Tornesb. 1932GRGreek actor and filmmaker (1932–1988)
- Stavros Kouyioumtzisb. 1932GRGreek songwriter (1932–2005)
- Stavros Xarchakosb. 1939GRGreek composer and conductor
- Stavros Dimasb. 1941GRGreek politician
- Stavros Lambrinidisb. 1962GRGreek politician
- Stavros Theodorakisb. 1963GRGreek journalist and politician
- Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece and Dernmarkb. 2008USmember of the former Greek royal family
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,016 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 235 | #4,679 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 189 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #10,016 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2021 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2015 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stavros mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek; 'cross' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Stavros?
- A machine transcription gives /stəvˈɹoʊz/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Stavros a male or female name?
- Stavros is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Stavros have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Stavros in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled σταυρος.
- How common is the name Stavros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,353 people named Stavros in 2020, about 1 in 246 thousand residents.
- How common is Stavros compared with other names?
- In Greece, Stavros is the 169th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stavrosThe 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, “Stavros” — the 169th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.