Male name
When is Sokratis’ name day?
Σωκράτης · Sokratis
Main name day
Saints Terence, Pompeius and their companions
The Greek name Σωκράτης (Sokratis) is celebrated on 10 April.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saints Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Theodore and their companions3rd centuryThird-century martyrs; the synaxarion lists many classical names among their companions, such as Pericles, Socrates and Miltiades.Saints Aphrikanos, Theodore, Maximus, Pompeius and Terentius were martyred in 250 AD, under Emperor Decius, at Carthage in Africa, together with thirty-nine other Christians whom the synaxarion lists by name, among them many classical Greek names such as Socrates, Pericles and Miltiades.Read more
- Saints Socrates and TheodotaMartyrs of Ancyra.Theodota and the priest Socrates lived in the 3rd century, in the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus, and were martyred at Ancyra.Read more
Variants and other forms
- In Latin letters
- Sokratis, Socratis
- English equivalents
- Socrates
- In Greek
- Σωκράτης