Given name
Makarios
“one who is blessed”
Makarios is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “one who is blessed.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who is blessed.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Makarios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 129
- 129 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,663 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,663 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2014.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Makarios’s family of names
Makarios has a related form in Macario. Makarios has a related form in Makari. Makarios has a related form in Makar.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 16
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Makarios
- Makarios IIIArchbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus (1913–1977)
- Macarius of EgyptEgyptian Christian monk and hermit300–391
- Macarius of Jerusalem4th century Bishop of Jerusalem300–335
- Macarius, Metropolitan of MoscowRussian cleric, Iconographer and Saint1482–1564
- Macarius MagnesChristian author of an apology "Apocriticus"350–500
- Makarios Melissenosmetropolitan bishop1550–1585
- Makarios II of CyprusArchbishop of Cyprus (1870–1950)
- Makar KraŭcoŭBelarusian writer (1891–1939)
- Makarios DjanGhanaian sprinter1955–2026
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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