Apollonius

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A male given name of historical usage

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ejpəlowɲɪəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Apollonius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 243K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

71 people

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 243K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Apollonios in GB United Kingdom.

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)

from the Greek god name Apollon; also via the popular romance hero Apollonius of Tyre

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Apollonius is read(measured from records)

Apollonius is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Indonesian32%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Apollonius in Indonesian.

  • English22%

    A male given name of historical usage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian9.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Apollonius in Italian.

  • German8.3%

    from the Greek god name Apollon; also via the popular romance hero Apollonius of Tyre

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Apollonius 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.

Where Apollonius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands711 in 243K71—2
MY Malaysia≈24 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Apollonius6
US United States≈3 est.≈1 in 109M—Apollonius4
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
GB United Kingdom≈2 est.≈1 in 36M—Apollonios11
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

71 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Apollonius 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 Apollónius

  • Spanish given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, English, Italian

    Also written Apolonio, Apölöniô, Apolońio, Äpölönïö, Apoloñio

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ἀπολλώνιος

24 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Apollonius 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 Latin, Greek name from Apollo

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

15001600170018001900Apollonius Schotte, b. 1579Apollonius Jan Cornelis Lampsins, b. 1754Apollonius von Maltitz, b. 1795Wladimir Apollonius Talén, b. 1812Johan Ericsson, b. 1834

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)

InformalHi Apollonius,

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 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Apollonius
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—71#5,431
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—20#19,561
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#21,593
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20263#23,535
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593

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

Where does the name Apollonius come from?
from the Greek god name Apollon; also via the popular romance hero Apollonius of Tyre Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Apollonius?
A machine transcription gives /ejpəlowɲɪəs/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Apollonius mean?
In English, A male given name of historical usage.
Is Apollonius a male or female name?
Apollonius 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 Apollonius have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 71 people named Apollonius, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Apollonius most common?
Apollonius is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 243 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Apollonius?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 71 people named Apollonius, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.

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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, “Apollonius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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