Afanasii
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æfəneɪzii/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Afanasii is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 15Kas Афанасій(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 22Kas Афанасий
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 39Kas Афанасий
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 Afanasii 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 named Афанасий, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Афанасий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, MD Moldova and 1 more, Афанасій in UA Ukraine and Afanasiy in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afanasii 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #498 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | #114 | Афанасий | 143 |
| UA Ukraine | #289 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Афанасій | 18 |
| US United States | — | 1,774as Athanasios | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Afanasiy | 22 |
| MD Moldova | #345 | 916as Afanasi | 1 in 3.7K | 916 | Афанасий | 7 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 48 | Афанасий | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 404as Athanasios | 1 in 25K | 404 | — | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Афанасий | 1 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Afanasii 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 Russian, "immortal."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 236 | #634 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Afanasii?
- A machine transcription gives /æfəneɪzii/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Afanasii a male or female name?
- Afanasii is a male 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.
- In which country does Afanasii have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Афанасий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Afanasii?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,774 people named Athanasios in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Afanasii compared with other names?
- In Russia, Afanasii is the 498th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Afanasii?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afanasiiThe 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, “Afanasii” — the 498th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.