Athanasios

Boy · Greek

Athanasios

Say it: ah-thah-NAH-see-os

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Meaning

Greek athanasia 'immortality', 'immortal'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

1,167 babies given this name since 1959
At its height in 1973, about 1 in 40,000 boys
10 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

Other spellings: Thanasis, Sakis

Latin	Athanasius

Famous bearers

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

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Where this comes from

Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
Calendars of saints and name days
National birth statistics of European countries source
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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