Eleutherius

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eleutherius is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Greek eleutheros 'free'; saint's name.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.1M◐
  • DEGermany1 in 8.7M
  • USUnited States1 in 45M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈16 ●

across 1 country

Sources
17 ●

138 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1M ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eleuthere in US United States, DE Germany.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from Greek eleutheros 'free'; saint's name

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eleutherius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States70106 rec.——Eleuthere17
NL Netherlands160 rec.1 in 1.1M16Eleutherius1
DE Germany1410 rec.——Eleuthere3
MQ Martinique———5——
GP Guadeloupe———5——
AR Argentina—0 rec.—2—1
VA Vatican City———1——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English5744%
  • Dutch1814%
  • Western Frisian1612%
  • German97%
  • Indonesian86%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English5744%
Dutch1814%
Western Frisian1612%
German97%
Indonesian86%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eleutherius is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name9 records spelled Eleutherius32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English

    Also written Eleuterio, Eleutério, Eleuterío, Éleuterio, Eleutèrio

  • French given name5 records spelled Eleutherius8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Martinique, Guadeloupe

    Also written Eleuthere, Eleuteri, Éleuthère, Eleuthère, Éleuthérius

  • Greek given name2 records spelled Eleutherius41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Greece, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: Greek, English, German

    Also written Eleftherios, Lefteris, Eleutherios, Ελευθέριος, Élefthérios

  • a separate name1 records spelled Eleutherius2 spellings in the group

    Also written Eleuteriusz

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence●

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Eleutherius
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—16#13,459
VA Vatican CityHoly See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names)—1#50

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eleutherius?
We estimate roughly 16 people bear Eleutherius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Eleutherius have the most bearers?
Eleutherius is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled eleuthere.
Where is Eleutherius most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eleutherius is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
Is Eleutherius a male or female name?
Eleutherius is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Eleutherius mean?
Recorded meaning: from Greek eleutheros 'free'; saint's name
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eleutherius”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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