Atanasio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Griego Athanasios, de a- privativa + thanatos 'muerte': 'inmortal'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/atanasjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atanasio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 56K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 102K
- BRBrazil1 in 457K
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.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Griego Athanasios, de a- privativa + thanatos 'muerte': 'inmortal'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atanasio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | #113 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 1 | Atanasio | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 887 | 1 in 56K | 977 | Atanasio | 52 |
| BR Brazil | — | 463 | 1 in 457K | 799 | Atanasio | 60 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 177 | Atanasio | 32 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Atanasio | 6 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Atanasio | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | #557 | 80 | 1 in 42K | 80 | Atanasio | 10 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Atanasio is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, dal gr. Athanásios, ‘immortale’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Greco *athanatos* ‘immortale’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do nome gr. Athanásios, 'imortal'
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Attanasio
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Inmortal
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Pedro Atanasio Bocanegrab. 1638ESSpanish baroque painter (1638-1688)
- Joaquín Atanasio Pignatelli de Aragón y Moncayob. 1724ESSpanish diplomat and aristocrat of Italian origin (1724-1776)
- Atanasio Echeverría y Godoyb. 1771ESMexican artist (1771-1803)
- Atanasio Girardotb. 1791COColombian revolutionary (1791-1813)
- Atanasio Aguirreb. 1801UYpresident of Uruguay (1801-1875)
- Stefano Lamerab. 1912ITnot in their usual nameItalian Paoline priest (1912-1997)
- Atanasio Ndongob. 1928GQEquatoguinean writer (1928-1969)
- Atanasio S. Ballesteros Morcillob. 1962ESSpanish politician
- Atanasio Amisse Canirab. 1962MZMozambican Bishop of Lichinga
- Atanasio Castillo FernándezESSpanish politician
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 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.5K | #2,461 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 304 | #11,936 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 304 | #11,922 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 177 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 23 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Atanasio?
- A machine transcription gives /atanasjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Atanasio mean?
- Recorded meaning: Griego Athanasios, de a- privativa + thanatos 'muerte': 'inmortal'.
- Is Atanasio a male or female name?
- Atanasio 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 Atanasio?
- In the etymology graph, Atanas, Athanasios and Thanos are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Atanasio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Atanasio in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atanasio.
- How common is the name Atanasio?
- In Spain, the national register counted 887 people named Atanasio, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
- How common is Atanasio compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Atanasio is the 113th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Atanasio?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atanasioThe 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, “Atanasio” — the 113th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.