Athanasios
Athanasios was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,556 among boys’ names; 1,284 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Athanasios and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 16 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Athanasios by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Athanasios mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Athanasios is “Alternative form of Athanasius, a male given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the senses “a-, un-, non-” (α-) and “dying” (θάνατος) and “-y: forming adjectives” (-ιος).
From Greek Αθανάσιος (Athanásios) and Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), from α- (a-, “a-, un-, non-”) + θάνατος (thánatos, “dying”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming adjectives”). Doublet of Athanasius and Afanasy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Athanasios?
#4,556 among boys’ names, 2025
Athanasios rose from #5,077 in 2015 to #4,556 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 12.9 per million.
39 babies in 1973, the peak
Athanasios peaked in 1973, when 39 boys were given it, #1,330 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,556 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,447 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,679 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,312 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,250 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,559 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,128 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,794 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,140 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,337 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,077 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,879 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,975 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,698 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,232 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,536 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,338 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,045 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,509 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,870 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,716 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,021 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,735 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,456 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,489 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,397 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,352 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,095 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,257 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,111 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,144 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,331 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,868 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,108 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,333 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,470 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,327 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,364 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,078 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,366 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,300 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,618 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,019 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,210 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,229 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,372 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,052 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,971 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,648 | 20.1 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,574 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 36 | #1,478 | 23.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,695 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 39 | #1,330 | 25.0 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,681 | 16.7 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,866 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,217 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,694 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,121 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,360 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,980 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,794 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,626 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,546 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,323 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,641 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Athanasios a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Athanasios has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Athanasios: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Athanasios, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,284 Americans ever recorded as Athanasios. The median Athanasios alive today is 31 years old; half are between 16 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,774 people named Athanasios (2 women and girls, 1,772 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 316 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 292 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 343 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 242 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Athanasios born?
The states with the most babies named Athanasios are New York, Illinois and Massachusetts, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 198 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 60 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Athanasios is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Athanasios is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Athanasios with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,543 babies since 1880, Athanasios is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 41 babies (54%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athanasios | 1,284 | 22 | 1973 |
| Athanasius | 259 | 19 | 2023 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Athanasios
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Rahman | 1,286 | |
| Anastasios | 1,029 | |
| Dimitrios | 2,682 | |
| Panagiotis | 1,320 | |
| Hakim | 2,361 | |
| Rommel | 1,519 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Athanasios and names like it
- Compare Athanasios and AthanasiusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAthanasios peaked in 1973.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Athanasios since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Athanasios: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Athanasios.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Athanasios alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.