Given name

Atanazas

Atanazas is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Lithuanian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Atanazas comes from Ancient Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Lithuanian usage, Atanazas developed from Ἀθανάσιος.

Atanazas’s family of names

In Lithuanian usage, Atanazas shares a linguistic root with the Latin form Athanasius. In Lithuanian usage, Atanazas has a related form in Afanasijus. In Lithuanian usage, Atanazas has a conventional equivalent in the English form Athanasius.

Walk Atanazas’s family in the name graph

AtanazasAfanasijusAfanãsijasAfanãsijusAthanasiusАфанасийἈθανάσιοςAtanaza

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Atanazas has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.

LithuanianAncient Greek

Ancient Greekwhere Atanazas comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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