Given name & surname
Thanos
“one who is noble and praiseworthy”
Thanos is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “one who is noble and praiseworthy.”
Original GreekΘάνος
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who is noble and praiseworthy.”
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 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thanos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 105
- 105 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −82%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 368 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.
Thanos’s family of names
Thanos has a related form in Thanasis. Thanos has a related form in Thanasos. In Greek usage, Thanos as a surname is a transliteration of Θάνος.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Thanos
- Thanos PetsosGreek footballerborn 1991
- Thanos MikroutsikosGreek composer and politician (1947–2019)
- Thanos PetrelisGreek singerborn 1975
- Thanos KallirisGreek singerborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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