Names of Cyprus CY

CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) records Μαρια as the commonest given name in Cyprus; the names that most distinguish Cyprus from the rest of the world are Ioannou, Ali and Mehmet.

Written in Greek, Turkish.

Population
1.3M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
20K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2011), 20,315 name forms in our corpus, 5 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Cyprus are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Cyprus included.

How names work in Cyprus

2 naming traditions are in use in Cyprus, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Cyprus

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census), 2011 — 943 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Μαρια40K—
2Ανδρεασ37K—
3Ελενη29K—
4Γιωργοσ26K—
5Ανδρουλα19K—
6Κωστασ18K—
7Χριστοσ16K—
8Νικολασ15K—
9Μιχαλησ15K—
10Παναγιωτησ14K—
11Ιωαννησ13K—
12Μαριοσ11K—
13Δημητρησ10K—
14Χαραλαμποσ9.9K—
15Κυριακοσ9.4K—
16Γεωργια9.1K—
17Παναγιωτα8.6K—
18Αννα8.2K—
19Αντωνησ8.2K—
20Χριστινα7.8K—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) 2011Across all recordsμαρια: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. μαριαnot rankedανδρεασ: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ανδρεασnot rankedελενη: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. ελενηnot rankedγιωργοσ: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. γιωργοσnot rankedανδρουλα: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. ανδρουλαnot rankedκωστασ: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. κωστασnot rankedχριστοσ: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. χριστοσnot rankedνικολασ: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. νικολασnot rankedμιχαλησ: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. μιχαλησnot rankedπαναγιωτησ: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. παναγιωτησnot rankedιωαννησ: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. ιωαννησnot rankedμαριοσ: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. μαριοσnot rankedδημητρησ: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. δημητρησnot rankedχαραλαμποσ: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. χαραλαμποσnot rankedκυριακοσ: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. κυριακοσnot rankedγεωργια: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. γεωργιαnot rankedπαναγιωτα: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. παναγιωταnot rankedαννα: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. ανναnot rankedαντωνησ: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. αντωνησnot rankedχριστινα: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. χριστιναnot rankedκατερινα: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. κατεριναnot rankedιωαννα: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. ιωανναnot rankedκυριακη: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. κυριακηnot rankedειρηνη: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. ειρηνηnot rankedστυλιανοσ: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. στυλιανοσnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census), 2011 on the left; every record we hold for Cyprus on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Cyprus

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Cyprus holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

CyprusAliMehmetMustafaAhmetChristosHasanHüseyinGeorgiosAyşePanagiotisMichalisEmineΚαιKonstantinosDimitrisCharalamposKemalIoannisIbrahim
Sized by how much of the difference between Cyprus's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Names in Cyprus are written in Latin (99%) and Greek (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Aligiven name(measured from records)
Mehmetgiven name(measured from records)
Cyprusgiven name(measured from records)
Mustafagiven name(measured from records)
Ahmetgiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Cyprus, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Cyprus?
Μαρια, according to CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) (2011), with 39,883 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Cyprus?
Because they count different people. CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) (2011) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Μαρια. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Ali. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Cyprus?
No — 2 are described on this page (Greek, Turkish), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Cyprus”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/CY (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census).