Meaning & origin
What it means
Atanas goes back to Ancient Greek Ἀθανάσιος, meaning “immortal.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Atanas’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Atanas is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Атанас. In Bulgarian usage, Atanas is a transliteration of Атанас.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Athanasiosequivalent
- Athanasiusequivalent
- Апанасequivalent
- Apanasequivalent
- Афанасийequivalent
- Atanazyequivalent
- Atanasioequivalent
- Atanázequivalent
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People named Atanas
- 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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