Dionysios

Gender Masculine
Usage Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Scripts Διονύσιος(Greek)

Meaning & History

Greek personal name derived from the name of the Greek god Dionysos. Famous bearers include two early tyrants of Syracuse and a 1st-century BC Greek rhetorician.

Related Names

RootsZeus + Nysa
VariantDionysius(Ancient Greek)
Feminine FormsDionysia(Greek) Dionysia(Ancient Greek)
Other Languages & CulturesDenis(Albanian) Dzianis(Belarusian) Dionysius(Biblical) Denis(Croatian) Denis(Czech) Dennis(Dutch) Denis, Dennis, Den, Denny(English) Denis(French) Denis, Dennis(German) Dénes(Hungarian) Dionisio, Dionigi(Italian) Deniss(Latvian) Tenney(Medieval English) Dionizy(Polish) Dinis, Dionísio, Diniz(Portuguese) Dênis(Portuguese (Brazilian)) Denis, Dionisie(Romanian) Denis(Russian) Denis, Dionýz(Slovak) Denis(Slovene) Dionisio(Spanish) Denys(Ukrainian)

Categories

Orthodox saints, rulers, theophoric names

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Διονύσιος.
Entry updated October 6, 2024