Names of Greece GR

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.

• CUCuba11%
• RORomania11%
• PYParaguay10%
• GTGuatemala9%
• ESSpain9%

Official registers

• ELSTAT — population given names2021headline (given)

  Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Counts: residents. given. 20 forms. 2021.

  ▶What we know about this register

  Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 35 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count', 'rank']. source note: elstat_living_population_pct

  Last verified 2026-06-05.

• Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers)2026not a population count

  Ministry of Digital Governance / Διαύγεια transparency programme. Counts: notable people. given and surname. 23,299 forms. 2026. Licence: Open (Ν.4305/2014 open-by-default public sector information).

  ▶What we know about this register

  FIRST GR SURNAME SOURCE IN THE PROJECT. Before this, the whole official layer held ~1,000 Greek-script name forms and ZERO Greek surnames; Greece ranked 13th-thinnest of the 140 ccs with any tier<=3 data, because ELSTAT publishes no name-frequency tabulation (publication-limited, not seed-limited). Διαύγεια's open API exposes firstName and lastName as SEPARATE fields, so no full-name parsing is needed. Harvested 2026-08-03: all 5,414 active organizations enumerated (0 fetch failures; 635 have no registered signers), yielding 47,857 distinct officials deduped on the person uid (the same official signs for several organizations). Result: 2,926 given forms / 48,755 bearers and 23,332 surname forms / 48,236 bearers. Plausibility: top given ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ, ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ, ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ, ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ, ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ, ΜΑΡΙΑ; top surname ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ then its feminine ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ — Papadopoulos is indeed the commonest Greek surname. Long tail is 15,663 surnames at a single bearer. Fetcher: scripts/fetch_gr_diavgeia_signers.py (resumable; raw JSON cached per org under raw/GR/diavgeia/signers/). *** UNIVERSE CAVEAT — DO NOT READ AS NATIONAL FREQUENCY. *** evidence=count is literal (true counts of distinct officials per name) but the universe is public servants with signing rights: adult, employed, skewed to senior grades. Use as an existence-and-form floor for Greek names and a RELATIVE frequency signal only. Every row's data_note repeats this so the caveat survives being joined away from this registry row. SEX is deliberately NULL: Greek given names are strongly gendered and Greek surnames carry morphological gender (ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ male vs ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ female genitive), but the API asserts no sex and inferring it would record our guess as the government's fact. CLEANING, all measured: (1) HOMOGLYPH REPAIR — Greek civil-service data entry mixes glyph-identical Latin capitals into Greek names, so ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ also arrived as KΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ (Latin K) and ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤIΝΟΣ (Latin I) — same name, different codepoints, silently splitting one name's count across entries that look identical on screen. Any token containing both scripts is folded Latin->Greek (no real personal name mixes scripts); wholly-Latin tokens are left alone because OIKONOMOY-vs-KENNETH is genuinely ambiguous (both consist only of mappable letters). Residual mixed forms: 2 of 26,258 (0.008%). (2) NAME PARTS — given names split on whitespace and hyphens (Greek law allows two given names; 792 of 814 multi-token firstName values have a lastName alongside, so they are double given names, not misfiled full names — only 22 rows, 0.05%, look like the latter); surnames split on hyphens ONLY, never whitespace, because ΤΟΠΑΛ ΜΕΜΕΤ and ΣΑΡ ΧΟΥΣΕΪΝ are single compound surnames of Greek citizens of the Turkish minority in Thrace and shredding them would fabricate surnames nobody bears. (3) INSTITUTIONS DROPPED — Διαύγεια allows a collective body as signer, so the name fields also held ΝΟΜΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ and ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΣΥΝΤΗΡΗΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΥΗΣ ΟΧΗΜΑΤΩΝ; unfiltered these inject ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ ('council'), ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ('committee') and ΟΧΗΜΑΤΩΝ ('of vehicles') as Greek names — the common-noun contamination that made mondodb 94.5% noise. The firstName field was the worse offender (ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ 68x, ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ 33x). 2 residual leaks. Note ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΟΥ/ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΑΚΗΣ/ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ are KEPT — real occupational surnames from επίτροπος 'commissioner'. (4) dropped system accounts (digits, e.g. '14555_ADMIN'), emails pasted into name fields, parenthetical nicknames, honorifics (ΔΡ) and bare initials. PERSON ROWS go to /backup/leaks/persons/gr/gr_diavgeia_signers.parquet (47,857 rows, verbatim as published — fidelity to the official record); only the aggregates here are cleaned.

  Last verified 2026-08-03.

• This page presents common Greek names and their name days, published by Definitely Greece.2011not a population count

  definitelygreece.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2011. Licence: unknown.

  ▶What we know about this register

  Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page presents common Greek names and their name days, published by Definitely Greece.

  Last verified 2026-05-11.

• According to a survey by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the page discusses the most popular names in Greec2026not a population count

  www.greecehighdefinition.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2026. Licence: unknown.

  ▶What we know about this register

  Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. According to a survey by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the page discusses the most popular names in Greece.

  Last verified 2026-05-11.

• According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i2023not a population count

  greekcitytimes.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 5 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.

  ▶What we know about this register

  Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names in Greece are analyzed.

  Last verified 2026-05-11.