Given name
Spartacus
“renowned by the spear”
Spartacus is a masculine given name from Thracian, meaning “renowned by the spear.” It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Thracian *Spartakos (“renowned by the spear”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Spartacus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 41
- 41 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 7 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Spartacus’s family of names
In Latin usage, Spartacus shares a linguistic root with the Ancient Greek form Σπαράδοκος. In English usage, Spartacus has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Σπάρτακος. In Latin usage, Spartacus has a later derivative in SPARTACO.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Spartacus has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Spartacoderivative · Italian
- Spartakusequivalent
- Spártakosequivalent
- Спартакequivalent
- Espartacoequivalent
- Spartakequivalent
- 𐌔𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌕𐌀𐌊𐌔equivalent
- Espártacoequivalent
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