Dionysios

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Half Greek baby boy due soon. Will likely grow up in London. Struggling for names!!

Nickname would be Dio (to rhyme with Leo).

I’m not Greek, so can’t comment on whether any of these suggestions are “out there” or not if you are Greek, but they all seem fairly normal to me where I live in north London. Favourite one I have heard of personally is Chrysovalantis. No idea if that’s cool/weird though!

I didn't realise this was on the names section. I thought it was medical.

Love Dionysios - I don't know about anyone else, but I'd look at it and go, what a cool Greek name!

Also, a vote for Athanasios, with Nassos as a nickname. I know a very nice Nassos!

I know a Ioannis who also spells it as Yannis

I like it, Dio is easy to pronounce.

My nephew is Odysseus but he gets some 'odd' pronounciations.

I'd go for it. It's a great name and could be shortened.

Suggestions:
Nikitas
Fotios
Atlas
Vasili
Theofilos
Ion
Makarios
Thaddeus
Vissarion
Erasmus
Spyridion
Stylianos
Kiril
Cosmas
Leontios
Eugenios
Tychon

Lazarus
Linus
Myles
Lucas
Atticus
Sebastian
Tobias
Jonas
Thaddeus
Philip
Hector
Andrew
Theodore
Cyprian
Nicodemus
Hilarion

Every 2nd Greek guy I know is Nick!

(And I know a lot, I live in Melbourne, second only to Athens for the world's biggest Greek population.)

Nick would be totally fine as a shortening! But I want to use as Greek a name as possible (in the English alphabet!) rather than an anglicised one, for the proper name at least. So, Nikolaos could be Nick, Dionysios could be Dio - that’s fine. I just wouldn’t use the nicknames on the birth certificate.

I think the name itself is great, but I think the wine connection would be too strong for me to want to use it. Dio is lovely though too.

Love Atticus, if a pp is right and that is Greek!

it’s a perfectly common name in greece :) Lots of Dionysios’ go by Dennis for short, maybe a bit old fashioned?

I think Dionysus is nice, it reminds me a bit of the word dinosaur which would really appeal to a boy I imagine.

A PP suggested Asterios which I now love, Aster is a very cool nickname and it means “one who hails from the stars” which is pretty magic!

Don’t call him Niko, too boring if Dionysus was your starting point!

I think it sounds fine for London. It's a nice name and just from a different culture. Dion is really cute and will work on an adult. MN naming boards are pretty xenophobic and tend to be 40 years out of date when foreign names come up

The wine-making association is what would make me hesitate rather than the name itself. I do like the Asterios suggestion and he could be called Rio for short, which is similar to Dio.

I like it, and love Dio

How about Perceus?
When he gets to school lots of teachers will be familiar with the name from the Percy Jackson books, as they've been popular for years now.

I love it and love the nickname.

I like it. I like strong names. Brits will be more familiar with Dionysius or Dionysis* *if that's important to you at all?

Other Greek names? I've always liked Andreas.

I've not heard Iason mentioned?

You are being very optimistic! I’ve had over 50 years of having my name spelt wrong and it’s bloody tiresome - especially in the digital age where I miss emails because people don’t spell it right 🤦‍♀️.

I think there are other options that are better - and less challenging!

Problem with shortening it to Dio is that it means God (as in The God) in Italian - Spanish it's Dios. Obviously like us they use it as a lesser sweary word too. That would put me off in multicultural London.

The Greeks I know - Panos, Dimitri, Alexander, Yannis - I know these are spelt wrong/shortened but you get the jist

Wouldn't Dio be pronounced as Dy-o - Like Lady Di?

If the top half is Greek then perhaps Herma, but if it's the bottom half then Achilles.

Presumably the other half will have a different name?

I can see problems here...

Asterios is really lovely. I also love Nestoras and Zephyros.
how about:
Vassilios
Aristides
Iacovos
Eleftherios
Nikodemos
Leandros
Themistoklis
Emilios
Argyris
Kosmas
Pericles
Gerasimos
Chrysanthos

I like Dionysus(with nn Dio or Dion)
Do any of these appeal?

Aithan
Milos
Atlas
Elias

Dionysus was a famous rapist. There’s few in mythology who aren’t predators.