Atanas
Atanas ( Bulgarian Атанас ) is a Bulgarian and Macedonian male given name .
Origin and Distribution
Atanas is derived from the Greek name Athanasios and means "the immortal". In 1980 he took the fourteenth place among the most frequently given male first names in Bulgaria, and in 2009 the thirteenth place.
Name bearer
- Atanas Atanassow (long jumper) (* 1956), Bulgarian long jumper
- Atanas Burow (1875–1954), Bulgarian banker and politician
- Atanas Dalchev (1904–1978), Bulgarian poet, critic and translator
- Atanas Kareev (* 1945), Bulgarian pianist
- Atanas Kirov (1946-2017), Bulgarian weightlifter
- Atanas Kolew (* 1967), Bulgarian chess player
- Atanas Komchev (1959-1994), Bulgarian wrestler
- Atanas Michajlow (1949-2006), Bulgarian football player
- Atanas Nakowski (1925-2014), Bulgarian writer
- Atanas Trifonow Popow (1906–1972), Bulgarian biologist
- Atanas Sechirow (* 1989), Bulgarian football player
- Atanas Semerdschiew (1924–2015), Bulgarian military and politician
- Atanas Michajlow Tschalakow (1816–1888), Bulgarian prelate, politician, exarch and head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, see Anthim I.
- Atanas Usunow (1857-1887), Bulgarian freedom fighter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Atanas on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ Traditional and Modern Names among the Bulgraian Christian Population ( Memento of the original dated November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
