Given name & surname · also Latin
Alcibiades
Alcibiades is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Original LatinAlcibiadēs
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Alcibiades comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Alcibiades developed from Ἀλκιβιάδης.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alcibiades through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 335 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alcibiades’s family of names
In English usage, Alcibiades developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀλκιβιάδης. In English usage, Alcibiades has a conventional equivalent in the French form ALCIBIADE. In English usage, Alcibiades has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form Alcibiadēs.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alcibiades has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Alcibiades comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AlcibiadēsLatin
- Ἀλκιβιάδηςroot · Ancient Greek
- AlcibíadesSpanish, Portuguese
- Алкивиа́дRussian
- AlkibiadesPolish, German
- AlcybiadesPolish
- АлкибијадMacedonian
- AlcibiadeItalian, French
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