Athanasiou
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Athanasiou is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 2.4Kas Athanasios(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 27Kas Athanasios
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 138Kas Athanasios
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 Athanasiou 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 named Athanasios, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Αθανασιος
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Athanasios in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Αθανασιου in GR Greece.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Athanasiou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #144 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 867 | Αθανασιου | 167 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Athanasios | 119 |
| US United States | — | 1,774as Athanasios | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Athanasios | 206 |
| CY Cyprus | #175 | 1,053as Αθανασιος | 1 in 1.2K | 1.1K | Athanasios | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 3 | Athanasios | 86 |
| SE Sweden | — | 404as Athanasios | 1 in 25K | 404 | Athanasios | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 43 | Athanasios | 27 |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Génica Athanasioub. 1897FRRomanian naturalized French actress (1897–1966)
- Charalampos Athanasioub. 1946GRGreek politician
- Andreas Athanasioub. 1994CACanadian ice hockey player
- Christos Athanasiouresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 397 | #55,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 350 | #58,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 307 | #61,207 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 43 | #20,892 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,526 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Athanasiou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Athanasios in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Athanasiou most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Athanasiou itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people named Αθανασιος.
- How common is the name Athanasiou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,774 people named Athanasios in 2020, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
- How common is Athanasiou compared with other names?
- In Greece, Athanasiou is the 144th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/athanasiouThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Athanasiou” — the 144th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.