Afanasy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Афана́сий (Afanásij)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æfəneɪsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Afanasy 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 Afanasy 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 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 named Афанасий, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, as Afanasi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Афанасий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, MD Moldova, 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(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Афана́сий (Afanásij).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afanasy 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 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Afanasy Nikitinb. 1500RURussian explorer
- Athanasius of Brest-Litovskb. 1597BYnot in their usual nameEastern Orthodox saint
- Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokinb. 1605RURussian politician
- Athanasios III Dabbasb. 1647SYnot in their usual nameMelkite Patriarch of Antioch
- Afanasy Grigorievb. 1782RURussian architect
- Afanasy Fetb. 1820RURussian poet (1820-1892)
- Afanasy Seredin-Sabatinb. 1860UAarchitect, designer (1860–1921)
- Afanasij Matveevič Seliŝevb. 1886RUnot in their usual nameSoviet sociolinguist and dialectologist (1886-1942)
- Afanasy Beloborodovb. 1903RUSoviet military commander (1903–1990)
- Afanasijs Kuzminsb. 1947LVnot in their usual nameLatvian sport shooter (born 1947)
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)
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Afanasy mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Афана́сий (Afanásij). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Afanasy?
- A machine transcription gives /æfəneɪsi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Afanasy a male or female name?
- Afanasy 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.
- What are other forms of the name Afanasy?
- In the etymology graph, Atanasio, Athanase and Afanasiy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Afanasy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Афанасий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Afanasy most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Afanasy itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Moldova's: the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people named Afanasi.
- How common is the name Afanasy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,774 people named Athanasios in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Afanasy compared with other names?
- In Russia, Afanasy is the 498th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Afanasy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afanasyThe 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, “Afanasy” — the 498th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.