Given name & surname · also Ancient Greek
Kyriakos
Kyriakos is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Greek.
Original GreekΚυριακός
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kyriakos comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Kyriakos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 162
- 162 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,102 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,102 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 426 as a first name in 2020; 123 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kyriakos’s family of names
In English usage, Kyriakos has a related form in CYRIAC. Kyriakos has a related form in Κυριάκος. In English usage, Kyriakos was borrowed from the Greek form Κυριακός.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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.
People named Kyriakos
- Kyriakos MitsotakisGreek politician, prime Minister of Greece, President of New Democracy partyborn 1968
- Kyriakos PapadopoulosGreek footballerborn 1992
- Kyriakos IoannouCypriot athletics competitorborn 1984
- Kyriacos Costa NicolaouCypriot-American chemistborn 1946
- Kyriakos VelopoulosGreek politician and television personalityborn 1965
- Kyriakos PierrakakisGreek politicianborn 1983
- Kyriakos PittakisGreek archaeologist (1798–1863)
- Kyriacos TriantaphyllidesCypriot politicianborn 1944
- Kyriakos AmiridisGreek diplomat1957–2016
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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