Eleftherios
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛləfðɝioʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eleftherios is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 133K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 702K
- GRGreece≈1 in 3.2Kas Lefteris
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 Eleftherios 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
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Lefteris, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ελευθεριος 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 across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eleftherios 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 | #274 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 170 | Ελευθεριος | 122 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 133K | 1 | Eleftherios | 90 |
| US United States | — | 474 | 1 in 702K | 473 | Eleftherios | 129 |
| CY Cyprus | #305 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Eleftherios | 38 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 326K | — | Eleftherios | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 132 | 1 in 77K | 132 | Eleftherios | 14 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Eleftherios | 12 |
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; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen 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)
- Eleftherios Kazanisb. 1861GRGreek engraver and photographer
- Eleftherios Venizelosb. 1864GRGreek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1864–1936)
- Eleftherios Anevlavisb. 1943GRGreek writer and physician
- Eleftherios P. Diamandisb. 1952CApathobiology researcher
- Elefthérios Synadinósb. 1955GRGreek politician
- Georgios Eleftherios Stavroulakisb. 1963GRProfessor at the Technical University of Crete, Greece and director of the Computational Mechanics and Optimization Lab.
- Peter Bakerb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist
- Eleftherios Avgenakisb. 1972GRGreek politician
- Eleftherios Goulielmakisb. 1975GRGreek physicist
- Eleftherios Konsolasb. 1988GRGreek rower
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 473 | #21,417 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 132 | #7,072 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 103 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 101 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 101 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 101 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 98 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 97 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 96 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 93 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 87 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 78 | — |
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
- In which country does Eleftherios have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Lefteris in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Eleftherios?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛləfðɝioʊs/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Eleftherios a male or female name?
- Eleftherios 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 Eleftherios?
- In the etymology graph, Eleuterio is a form of the same name in other languages; Lefteris is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Eleftherios?
- In the United States, the national register counted 474 people named Eleftherios in 2020, about 1 in 702 thousand residents.
- How common is Eleftherios compared with other names?
- In Greece, Eleftherios is the 274th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eleftheriosThe 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, “Eleftherios” — the 274th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.