MEANING & HISTORY
What does Athanasia mean?
Athanasia comes from Greek athanasia, associated with immortality or being undying. Tagalog records borrowing through Spanish, while the English account also traces Latin and Greek forms.
The language of immediate borrowing is therefore different from the older lexical source. Athanasia should remain separate from Anastasia, which has a resurrection root rather than the same word. The name’s vocabulary describes an old abstract concept, not a physical promise of immortality to a child or a statement about the family’s particular beliefs.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Tagalog
- /ʔataˈnasja/Standard-Tagalog
- [ʔɐ.t̪ɐˈn̪aː.ʃɐ]Standard-Tagalog
- /ʔataˈnasja/no palatal assimilation
- [ʔɐ.t̪ɐˈn̪as.jɐ]no palatal assimilation
A · tha · nas · ia4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Spanish
- /ataˈnasja/
- [a.t̪aˈna.sja]
A · tha · na · sia4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Athanasia, from Latin Athanasia, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανασία (Athanasía), from ἀθανασία (athanasía, “undying, immortal”).
a female given name from Spanish
Wiktionary: Athanasia (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
From Latin Athanasia, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανασία (Athanasía), from Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “undying, immortal”). Probable doublet of Tansy.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Wiktionary: Athanasia (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Inherited from Latin Athanasia, from Ancient Greek Ἀθανασία (Athanasía), from ἀθανασία (athanasía, “undying, immortal”).
a female given name from Ancient Greek
Wiktionary: Athanasia (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Athanasia in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
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Similar names to Athanasia
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Anastasia♀Resurrection
- Athena♀Name of the Greek goddess associated with Athens
- Theresia♀Theresa-family form with an early Therasia history
- Alyssia·Variant of Alicia, in the Alice name family
- Ambrosia♀Feminine Ambrosios family: immortal
- Dionisia·Feminine of Dionysius, associated with Dionysos
- Teodosia·God and giving in the Greek Theodosios formation
- Atilano·Late Latin Atilanus, probably Atila + -anus
What rhymes with Athanasia?
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Explore Athanasia further
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- Wiktionary contributors — Athanasia (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Athanasia (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Athanasia (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.