Athanasios
Athanasios is a boy's name that peaked in 1973, when it was the 1,329th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,539th. About 1,200 Athanasioses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Athanasios
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,284
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1973
- Best rank
- 1,329th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,539th
- First recorded
- 1959
How old the living Athanasioses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,284 babies given the name since 1959, about 1,200 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Athanasioss
- Athanasios Diakos (1788–1821)Greek general
- Athanasios Vouros (1871–1959)Greek fencer
- Athanasios Miaoulis (1815–1867)Greek politician
- Athanasios Christopoulos (1772–1847)Greek poet
- Athanasios III of Constantinople (1597–1654)Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Pope Athanasios II of Alexandria (450–496)Head of the Coptic Church from 489 to 496
- Athanasios Tsakalov (1790–1851)Greek independence activist
- Athanasios Eftaxias (1849–1931)Greek politician
People named Athanasios with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Athanasios is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Athanasios is most concentrated in New York (8.9×), Illinois (4.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1973
The most popular boys’ names the year Athanasios peaked:
Athanasios elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Athanasios | 103 | 1,595th |
| Switzerland boys | Athanasios | 18 | 1,545th |
| Scotland boys | Athanasios | 3 | 711th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Athanasios: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Athanasios | 17 | 0.001% | 1,188th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Athanasios | 1 | 0.000% | 809th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Athanasios among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Athanasios | 11 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Athanasios against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.