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Атанас
“immortal”
Атанас (Atanás) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Bulgarian and Macedonian.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Serbian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Athanasius.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Атанас goes back to Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος, meaning “immortal.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Атанас’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Атанас can be written in the Roman alphabet as ATANAS. In Bulgarian usage, Атанас has a transliteration in ATANAS. In Bulgarian usage, Атанас has a conventional equivalent in the French form Athanase.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Атанас has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Атанас comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Атанас
- Atanas DalchevBulgarian writer (1904-1978)
- Atanas KolevBulgarian chess playerborn 1967
- Atanas KirovBulgarian weightlifter1946–2017
- Atanas BornosuzovBulgarian footballerborn 1979
- Atanas TarevBulgarian pole vaulterborn 1958
- Atanas BurovBulgarian politician (1875-1954)
- Atanas SemerdzhievBulgarian politician (1924-2015)
- Atanas BadevBulgarian composer and music teacher (1860–1908)
- Atanas ChipilovBulgarian footballerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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