Male name
When is Kyriakos’ name day?
Κυριάκος · Kyriakos
Main name day
Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite
The Greek name Κυριάκος (Kyriakos) is celebrated on 29 September.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite5th–6th centuryAscetic in Palestine who lived to a very great age.Cyriacus was born in Corinth in the 5th century, the son of the priest John and Eudoxia. While still young he went to Jerusalem and became a monk at the Lavra of Euthymius the Great, who sent him to practice asceticism near Gerasimus.Read more
- Saint Kyriaki the Great MartyrGreat martyr of the early Christian centuries.Kyriaki was born on a Sunday (Kyriaki in Greek), which is how she got her name, to the devout couple Dorotheos and Eusevia. During the persecution of Diocletian her parents were arrested, tortured and beheaded, while she herself was brought before Caesar Maximian and then before Hilarianos, governor of Bithynia.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Kyriakos, Kiriakos
- English equivalents
- Cyriacus
- In Greek
- Κυριάκος