boys:
1.2k births since 1959
#3373 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1959
#6505 (16th percentile)
The name Athanasios is the #6,505 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,236 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 15.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,373 (26.4% percentile) for all time with 1,236 births since 1959.
Athanasios first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for boys in 1959). Birth data for Athanasios is available in 63 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Athanasios reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #610) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 24 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Athanasios ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 36.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Athanasios".
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Our model has identified 27 different pronunciations for the name Athanasios. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Athanasios is pronounced as a-thuh-NAY-zhuhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-thuh-NAY-shee-uhs, at 8.9% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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