Given name & surname · Greek
Κωστάκης
“short for Constantine”
Κωστάκης (Kostákis) is a masculine given name. It is used in Greek.
GreekWritten in Greek script. In English: Kostákis.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Κωστάκης goes back to a word meaning “short for Constantine.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Greek usage, Κωστάκης is a diminutive of Κωνσταντίνος.
Κωστάκης’s family of names
In Greek usage, Κωστάκης is a diminutive of Κωνσταντίνος. In Greek usage, Κωστάκης has a transliteration in Kostákis. In Greek usage, Κωστάκης has a transliteration in KOSTAKIS.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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Spellings & scripts 3
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Across languages 16
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See also 1
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