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Athanasius

“immortal”

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Origin: Ancient Greek
3 language contexts: English German Latin
Follow the evidence: 10 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Athanasius

Athanasius is a masculine given name documented in English, German and Latin. English Wiktionary traces it to Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος via Latin, with the stated meaning “immortal”.

2 source accounts

Ancient Greek origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “immortal”

Borrowed from Latin Athanasius, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος (Athanásios), from ἀθανάσιος (athanásios, “immortal”), from ἀθάνατος (athánatos, “immortal”). Doublet of Athanasios and Afanasy. Compare Ambrose.

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

German Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgriechisch: „der Unsterbliche“

griechisch: „der Unsterbliche“

Sources for this account (1)

German Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Athanasius is used

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countries in our sources

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3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 19 boys (rank 5045). Documented as a given name in English.

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4 of 14 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Athanasius

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 19; applications; Rank #5,045
Peak year: 2023; 25 applications

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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Athanasius in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	5	10,556	observed
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	10	7,427	observed
2007	10	7,590	observed
2008	10	7,698	observed
2009	11	7,236	observed
2010	8	8,803	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	5	12,274	observed
2013	6	10,728	observed
2014	5	12,108	observed
2015	16	5,507	observed
2016	15	5,789	observed
2017	12	6,685	observed
2018	16	5,540	observed
2019	18	5,153	observed
2020	15	5,699	observed
2021	14	6,032	observed
2022	14	6,147	observed
2023	25	4,220	observed
2024	25	4,200	observed
2025	19	5,045	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Athanasius” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Athanasius— “undying”
Athanasius, _m._ _Eng._ Lat. Ger. Gr. undying, 109
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) — German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680) source
Athanasius the Athonite (920–1000) — Byzantine monk source
Athanasius Schneider (born 1961) — Kazakhstani bishop (born 1961) source

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A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q12359883CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: AthanasiosCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Athanasius.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:En-us-Athanasius.ogaCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Athanasius

Athanasius is a masculine given name documented in English, German and Latin. English Wiktionary traces it to Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος via Latin, with the stated meaning “immortal”.

2 source accounts

Ancient Greek origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “immortal”

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

German Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgriechisch: „der Unsterbliche“

griechisch: „der Unsterbliche“

Sources for this account (1)

German Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Athanasius is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Athanasius’s connections around the world.

3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 19 boys (rank 5045). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 14 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Athanasius

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 19; applications; Rank #5,045
Peak year: 2023; 25 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Athanasius in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	5	10,556	observed
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	10	7,427	observed
2007	10	7,590	observed
2008	10	7,698	observed
2009	11	7,236	observed
2010	8	8,803	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	5	12,274	observed
2013	6	10,728	observed
2014	5	12,108	observed
2015	16	5,507	observed
2016	15	5,789	observed
2017	12	6,685	observed
2018	16	5,540	observed
2019	18	5,153	observed
2020	15	5,699	observed
2021	14	6,032	observed
2022	14	6,147	observed
2023	25	4,220	observed
2024	25	4,200	observed
2025	19	5,045	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Athanasius— “undying”
Athanasius, _m._ _Eng._ Lat. Ger. Gr. undying, 109
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) — German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680) source
Athanasius the Athonite (920–1000) — Byzantine monk source
Athanasius Schneider (born 1961) — Kazakhstani bishop (born 1961) source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q12359883CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: AthanasiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: AthanasiosCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Athanasius.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:En-us-Athanasius.ogaCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Athanasius

About Athanasius

Ancient Greek origin

Where Athanasius is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers (sourced)

Afanasy

Athanase

Athanasious

Αθανάσιος

Атанас

Афанасий

Athanasios

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Athanasius

About Athanasius

Ancient Greek origin

Where Athanasius is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers (sourced)

Afanasy

Athanase

Athanasious

Αθανάσιος

Атанас

Афанасий

Athanasios

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Athanasius

Ancient Greek origin

Where Athanasius is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Athanasius

Ancient Greek origin

Where Athanasius is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page