GREEK-AMERICAN NAMES (nameset 23)
0.4% of American population
I hadn't planned on doing a Greek nameset, but I found
this site that provided information about ethnic names in the US. The distribution of Greek names in the US is different from that in Greece, no doubt the result of the "Americanization" process that shortened a number of long names. So, for instance, Papadopoulos is evidently the most common name in Greece, but Pappas is the most common Greek-American name. Presumably, more than a few names like Pappas and Papa, common in the US, were originally much longer in the original Greek.
I base this set on the OOTP nameset, but I edited that nameset to eliminate some duplicates and drop some names that I either couldn't confirm were Greek or were the kind that probably wouldn't have survived Americanization. There are 787 names in the OOTP nameset. There are 1002 in the American Ethnic nameset.
Some prominent Greek-American baseball players include:
- Milt Pappas
- Gus Triandos
- Harry Agganis
- Eric Karros
- Nick Markakis
- Mike Moustakas
23 Greek-American Names.txt
23 Greek-American First Names.txt