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Kyriaki
Say it: kee-ree-ah-KEE
Meaning
From Greek kyriakē 'of the Lord', the Greek word for Sunday.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Traditional modern Greek name, often given to girls born on a Sunday.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 133 babies given this name since 1973
- At its height in 1991, about 1 in 208,300 girls
- 5 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Koula
| Russian | Kiriakiya |
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Famous bearers
- Saint Kyriaki, early Christian martyr
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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