Spiros
Spiros is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is of Greek origin and a short form of Spyridon .
It is a male given name, which is used in the Greek-speaking population (Greece, especially in Corfu, whose patron saint is Saint Spyridon, in Cyprus, Greek diaspora) and among Christians in Lebanon, where it is a common first and last name, occurs quite often. It is a shortened form of the archaic sounding Spyridon (Σπυρίδων), which means "basket that was used to carry seeds" (grπυρί, grain, seeds) in ancient Greek.
Špiro is also a male Croatian and Montenegrin name.
In Germany the family name Spiro originated as a falsification of Speyer, the name of a town in the Rhineland. He is one of several Jewish family names that arose in this way, along with the family name Shapiro .
variants
Well-known namesake
- Spiros Argiris (1948–1996), Greek conductor
- Spiros Focás (* 1937), Greek actor
- Spiros Latsis (* 1946), Greek entrepreneur
- Spiros Simitis (* 1934), German lawyer and data protection expert of Greek origin
- Spiros Stathoulopoulos (* 1978), Greek-Colombian textile engineer
- Spiros Zodhiates (1922–2009), Greek-American theologian, author and missionary
Itemized list
- ^ Isaac Goldberg: Family Legacies. (No longer available online.) Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada, Inc., 2003, archived from the original ; accessed on March 5, 2020 (English).