Thanos
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈθɑnoʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thanos is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.6M
- CYCyprus≈1 in 20K
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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thanos 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 | #334 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 5 | Thanos | 123 |
| US United States | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 368 | Thanos | 152 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 510K | 6 | Thanos | 60 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 709K | — | Thanos | 53 |
| FR France | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Thanos | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 12 | Thanos | 24 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Thanos | 33 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Thanos | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Thanos | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 9 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)
- Thanos Tsingosb. 1914GRGreek artist (1914–1965)
- Thanos Grammenosb. 1927GRGreek actor
- Thanos Leivaditisb. 1934GRGreek actor and screenwriter
- Thanos Mikroutsikosb. 1947GRGreek composer and politician (1947–2019)
- Thanos Kallirisb. 1962GRGreek singer
- Thanos Anastopoulosb. 1965GRGreek director and filmmaker
- Thanos Samarasb. 1973GRGreek actor
- Thanos Petrelisb. 1975GRGreek singer
- Thanos Tokakisb. 1980GRGreek actor and director
- Thanos Petsosb. 1991DEGreek footballer
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 18 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 368 | #59,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 362 | #56,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 322 | #58,849 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12 | #59,735 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,632 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Thanos?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθɑnoʊs/ (IPA) for Greek.
- What are other forms of the name Thanos?
- In the etymology graph, Atanasio, Thanasis and Athanase are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Athanasios.
- How common is the name Thanos?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19 people named Thanos, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.
- How common is Thanos compared with other names?
- In Greece, Thanos is the 334th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
- Is Thanos a male or female name?
- Thanos 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 Thanos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Thanos in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thanos.
What do you want to know about Thanos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thanosThe 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, “Thanos” — the 334th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.