Given name & surname
Confucius
“Master Kong”
Confucius is a masculine given name from New Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Confucius goes back to a word meaning “Master Kong.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From New Latin Cōnfucius, built from Mandarin 孔夫子 + Latin -ius.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Confucius’s family of names
In English usage, Confucius has a conventional equivalent in the Welsh form Conffiwsiws. In English usage, Confucius has a conventional equivalent in the Catalan form Confuci. In English usage, Confucius has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form CONFUCIO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Confucius has relatives in 86 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
72 related names in 86 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 68
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Gungjswjza
- קאָנפֿוציוסYiddish
- ConffiwsiwsWelsh
- Khổng Phu TửVietnamese
- Khổng TửVietnamese
- KonfutsiyUzbek
- كۇڭزىUyghur
- Конфу́ційUkrainian
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- KonfüçyüsTurkish
- ཁུང་ཙིbo
- ขงจื๊อThai
- கன்பூசியஸ்Tamil
- КонфутсийTajik
- KonfuciusSwedish, Upper Sorbian
- ConfucioSpanish, Italian
- කොන්ෆියුසියස්Sinhala
- KonfučijeSerbo-Croatian
- КонфучијеSerbo-Croatian
- Ку́н-цзы́Russian
- Конфу́цийRussian, Bulgarian
- ConfúcioPortuguese
- KonfucjuszPolish
- کنفوسیوسPersian
- KonfyuschusPennsylvania German
- КонфуцийOssetian, Kyrgyz
- KonfutseNorwegian Bokmål, German
- КүнзMongolian
- ᡴᡠᠩᡯᡳmnc
- Конфу́чијMacedonian
- KonfucijusLithuanian
- ຂົງຈື້lo
- 공부자Korean
- 공자Korean
- ខុង ជឺKhmer
- ខុងជឺKhmer
- Құң-зыKazakh
- 공ᄌᆞjje
- 孔夫子Japanese, Mandarin
- 孔子Japanese, wuu
- ConfúiciasIrish
- KhonghucuIndonesian
- KonfusiusIndonesian, West Frisian
- KonghucuIndonesian
- KonfúkiusIgbo
- KonfúsíusIcelandic
- KonfuciuszHungarian
- कन्फ़्यूशियसHindi
- קונפוציוסHebrew
- કન્ફ્યુશિયસGujarati
- KonfusiusiGreenlandic
- ΚομφούκιοςGreek
- Konfuziusbar, German
- კონფუციGeorgian
- ConfuciFriulian, Catalan
- KungfutseFinnish
- KonfuceoEsperanto
- ކޮންފޫޝާdv
- ConfuciuCorsican
- 孔子公nan-hbl
- ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ်Burmese
And 8 more.
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