Stylianos

Locally spelled Στυλιανος 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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Stylianos is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Stylianós

• Russian given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Cyprus, United States

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Стилиан, Стилианос, Stilian, Stilianos, Stiliân

• Italian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States

  Also written Stylianós

33 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.

Stylianos 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 Στυλιανός (Stylianós), used in Greece.

  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.

• Stylianos of Paphlagoniab. 350TR5th-century cleric venerated as a saint in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Stilianos Zaoutzesb. 900TRnot in their usual nameByzantine statesman
• Stylianos Gonatasb. 1876GRGreek politician (1876-1966)
• Stylianos Lykoudisb. 1878GRGreek soldier
• Stilianos Miliadisb. 1881GRnot in their usual nameGreek artist (1881-1965)
• Stylianos Mavromichalisb. 1899GRGreek politician (1899-1981)
• Stylianos Pattakosb. 1912GRGreek politician and military officer (1912–2016)
• Stilianos Atteshlisb. 1912CYnot in their usual nameCypriot mystic
• Stylianos of Australiab. 1935GREastern Orthodox archbishop (1935–2019)
• Stelios Kitsioub. 1993GRnot in their usual nameGreek association football player

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).

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

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

From Greek Στυλιανός (Stylianós), from Ancient Greek Στυλιανός (Stulianós, literally “someone firm”), from στῦλος (stûlos, “pole”). Recorded by Wiktionary.

What are other forms of the name Stylianos?

In the etymology graph, Stelios is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Stylianos?

In Greek /stiʎanos/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Stylianos a male or female name?

Stylianos is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

In which country does Stylianos have the most bearers?

In Cyprus, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Στυλιανος, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Stylianos?

In the United States, the national register counted 350 people named Stylianos in 2020, about 1 in 950 thousand residents.

How common is Stylianos compared with other names?

In Cyprus, Stylianos is the 254th most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.