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Athanasios

#4,556 in 2025Boys' name

To die, through Αθανάσιος

Athanasios has been given to 1,284 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #4,556 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Athanasios, 2025

1 in 151,000

Athanasios over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Athanasios: meaning, origin, and history

To die, through Αθανάσιος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Athanasios means

Athanasios belongs to the name family reached through Athanasios → Αθανάσιος → Ἀθανάσιος. Its meaning is “to die”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Greek Αθανάσιος (Athanásios), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. From α- (a-, “absence of”) + θάνατος m (thánatos, “death”). Doublet of Athanasius.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Athanasios (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Athanasios is used in English.

Athanasios comes through Greek Αθανάσιος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Αθανάσιος, Athanasius and Ἀθανάσιος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,284 boys were recorded with the name Athanasios between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,330 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,559 in 2020 to #4,556 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,077 in 2015 to #4,556 in 2025.

How common is Athanasios?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,556
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Athanasios sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Athanasios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Athanasioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Athanasios was born before 1994 — so the typical Athanasios is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,284
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1970s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (287).

Is Athanasios rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−109
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,003
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+521
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.4%
Peak was 1973 (39)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,330
1973

Where Athanasios is used

Across 1910–2025, Athanasios was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 169,018 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Athanasios has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Athanasios around the world

Where Athanasios ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1950–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Athanasios by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,556
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,003
Best rank ever
#1,330
1973
Peak year
1973
39 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,284
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Athanasios

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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