Stauros

org · Latin script

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

Stauros is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CYCyprus1 in 318as Σταυρος(measured from records)
  • GRGreece≈1 in 2Kas Stavros
  • DEGermany≈1 in 43Kas Stavros

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 Stauros 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)

≈5,200 named Stavros, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 318 (inferred from the name graph)

Cyprus, as Σταυρος

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

StavrosLatin(measured from records)
ΣταυροςGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stavros in US United States, CY Cyprus, DE Germany and 3 more and Σταυρος 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)

Stauros 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 Stauros is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GR Greece#169≈5,200 est.≈1 in 2K276Σταυρος161
CY Cyprus#1063,980as Σταυρος1 in 3184KStavros80
DE Germany—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 43K—Stavros112
US United States—1,353as Stavros1 in 246K1.3KStavros223
ZA South Africa—≈570 est.≈1 in 100K—Stavros20
SE Sweden—235as Stavros1 in 43K235Stavros26
BE Belgium—≈210 est.≈1 in 55K1Stavros29

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; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Stauros is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Staúros

25 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Stavros G. Livanos, b. 1891Stavros Niarchos, b. 1909Stavros Xenidis, b. 1923Stavros Kouyioumtzis, b. 1932Stavros Xarchakos, b. 1939Stavros Dimas, b. 1941Stavros Arnaoutakis, b. 1956Stavros Lambrinidis, b. 1962Stavros Theodorakis, b. 1963Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece and Dernmark, b. 2008

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 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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 Stauros have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Stavros in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Stauros most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Stauros itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 318 people named Σταυρος.
How common is the name Stauros?
In Cyprus, the national register counted 3,980 people named Σταυρος in 2011, about 1 in 318 residents.
How common is Stauros compared with other names?
In Greece, Stauros is the 169th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.

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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, “Stauros” — the 169th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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