Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Efthimios isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Efthimios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 26 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 6 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 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 172 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.
Efthimios’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Themisequivalent
- Makisequivalent
- Eutimioequivalent
- Thimiosequivalent
- Τίμηςequivalent
- Efthymiosequivalent
- Ευθύμιοςequivalent
- Timisequivalent
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People named Efthimios
- Euthymius the GreatArmenian Christian abbot and hermit (377-473)
- Euthymius of TarnovoBulgarian patriarch, writer1320–1402
- Euthymios ZigabenosByzantine writer1050–1120
- Euthymius II of ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarch in 1410–14161340–1416
- Euthymios Tornikiosbyzantine ecclesiastical official and writer1101–1250
- Efthymios ChristodoulouGreek economistborn 1932
- Euthyme le Jeune823–898
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Efthimios, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Demetrios
>99% boys
Athanasios
“a-, un-, non-” · “dying”
>99% boys
Esequiel
“God strengthens” · “strengthened by God”
>99% boys
Vasilios
“one who is kingly; born to royalty”
>99% boys
Eladio
“a man from Greece”
>99% boys
Dimitrios
“a follower of the goddess Demeter”
>99% boys
Erich
“ever the ruler”
>99% boys
Konstantinos
“one who is steadfast; firm”
>99% boys