Greek Male Name Generator

Most Greek men are named after a saint, and usually after a grandfather: the first son traditionally takes the paternal grandfather's name, which is why Giorgos, Dimitris, Konstantinos, Yannis and Nikos have topped the charts for a century. Each formal name has a short form used in daily life. Konstantinos is Kostas, Panagiotis is Panos or Takis, Athanasios is Thanasis, Evangelos is Vangelis, Eleftherios is Lefteris and Emmanouil is Manolis. A character's passport, his mother and his friends may all use a different version of the same name.

A second layer of names comes from antiquity and was revived in the 19th century: Periklis, Leonidas, Sokratis, Odysseas, Aristotelis, Achilleas and Miltiadis are perfectly normal modern names, more common in educated or nationalist-era families. A handful of saints' names also double as surnames, so Papadopoulos ('son of the priest') and Papageorgiou are far more common than any single given name.

Surname endings point to a region. -opoulos is Peloponnesian, -akis is Cretan, -idis and -iadis are Pontic or northern, -atos comes from the Ionian islands, -oglou from Asia Minor families and -akos from the Mani. All names here use Latin transliteration as it appears on Greek ID cards and in English-language novels.