Names of Cyprus CY
CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) records Μαρια as the commonest given name in Cyprus; the names that most distinguish Cyprus from the rest of the world are Cyprus, Ανδρουλα and Μιχαλης.
Written in Greek, Turkish.
- Population
- 1.3M
- Official registers
- 1
- Name forms recorded
- 18K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Cyprus
2 naming traditions are in use in Cyprus, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Cyprus
This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.
| # | Name | Bearers recorded | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Μαρια | 40K | — |
| 2 | Ανδρεασ | 37K | — |
| 3 | Ελενη | 29K | — |
| 4 | Γιωργοσ | 26K | — |
| 5 | Ανδρουλα | 19K | 9 |
| 6 | Κωστασ | 18K | — |
| 7 | Χριστοσ | 16K | — |
| 8 | Νικολασ | 15K | — |
| 9 | Μιχαλησ | 15K | — |
| 10 | Παναγιωτησ | 14K | — |
| 11 | Ιωαννησ | 13K | — |
| 12 | Μαριοσ | 11K | — |
| 13 | Δημητρησ | 10K | — |
| 14 | Χαραλαμποσ | 9.9K | — |
| 15 | Κυριακοσ | 9.4K | — |
| 16 | Γεωργια | 9.1K | 28 |
| 17 | Παναγιωτα | 8.6K | 25 |
| 18 | Αννα | 8.2K | — |
| 19 | Αντωνησ | 8.2K | — |
| 20 | Χριστινα | 7.8K | — |
Where the two lists disagree
24 of CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.
The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.
Characteristic of Cyprus
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Cyprus holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Cyprus are written in Latin (57%) and Greek (43%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
- CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census)2011headline (given)
Statistical Service of Cyprus (CYSTAT). Counts: residents. given. 943 forms. 2011. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
What we know about this register
Given-name frequency from the 2011 Cyprus Population Census (1.10.2011). Legacy .xls (BIFF8, CP1253 Greek) — read with python-calamine (xlrd>=2.0 cannot open it). 943 Greek-script given names with absolute counts, sorted desc (ΜΑΡΙΑ 39,883; ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ 36,682). No sex split. Names <10 suppressed into "ΑΛΛΟ/ΔΕ ΔΗΛΩΘΗΚΕ" (dropped). Greek-Cypriot population only (Turkish-Cypriot north not covered). Names title-cased on ingest. Built by scripts/build_open_data_batch.py. CHECKED 2026-08-06: searched CYSTAT (cystat.gov.cy / CYSTAT-DB) for a live per-name frequency tool; none found beyond this bulk 2011 file. Cyprus's civil registry once offered a per-person lookup at civil-registry-search.service.gov.cy but that service is now explicitly discontinued ("This service is no longer available online"; converted to an in-person PDF-application process at District Administration Offices / embassies). No electoral-roll search-others tool found either (only self-registration at voter-registration.service.gov.cy). No live per-name existence form exists for Cyprus.
Last verified 2026-06-04.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Easy Turkish Grammarweb
- Kylianweb
- Preplyweb
- Surname Law (Turkey)encyclopaedia
- Turkish nameencyclopaedia
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- What is the most common given name in Cyprus?
- Μαρια, according to CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) (2011), with 39,883 bearers recorded.
- Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Cyprus?
- Because they count different people. CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census) (2011) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Μαρια. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Ανδρεας. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
- Is there one naming system in Cyprus?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Greek, Turkish), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Cyprus”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/CY (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census).