Lycurgus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spartan lawgiver; Athenian orator;
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lycurgus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- CYCyprus1 in 53Kas Λυκουργος(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 112Kas Lykourgos
- ISIceland1 in 351Kas Lykourgos
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 Lycurgus 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
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈95 named Lykourgos, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Λυκουργος
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lykourgos in US United States, CY Cyprus, GB United Kingdom and Λυκουργος 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(measured from records)
Spartan lawgiver; Athenian orator;
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lycurgus 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 | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 9 | Λυκουργος | 39 |
| CY Cyprus | 24as Λυκουργος | 1 in 53K | 24 | Lykourgos | 7 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 16M | 7 | Lykourgos | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Lykourgos | 12 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1as Lykourgos | 1 in 351K | 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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Lycurgus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, king of Thrace
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, The name of several kings of Ancient Greece
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lycurgus Johnsonb. 1818USAmerican planter
- James Lycurgus Ordb. 1822USAmerican physician
- Henry L. Howisonb. 1837USnot in their usual nameAmerican naval officer
- Lycurgus Rose Moyerb. 1848USAmerican teacher, surveyor, judge, banker, community leader, author, botanist and botanical collector (1848 - 1917)
- Lycurgus R. Varserb. 1878USAmerican judge
- L. L. Marshallb. 1888USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1888-1958)
- Lycurgus Connerb. 1909USAmerican lawyer (1909-1963)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Lycurgus mean, and where does it come from?
- Spartan lawgiver; Athenian orator; Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Lycurgus a male or female name?
- Lycurgus 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 Lycurgus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 people named Lykourgos in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lycurgus most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lycurgus itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 53 thousand people named Λυκουργος.
- How common is the name Lycurgus?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 24 people named Λυκουργος in 2011, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lycurgusThe 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, “Lycurgus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.