Kirakos as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kirakos

What is the meaning of the name Kirakos ?

The baby name Kirakos is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced kee-RAH-kos (IPA: /kiˈɾakos/).

Kirakos is Armenian in Origin.

Kirakos (Armenian Կիրակոս) is a classical Armenian male name rooted in the Greek Kyriakos (Κυριακός), meaning “of the Lord” or “belonging to the Lord.” The Greek adjective also underlies Kyriaki, “the Lord’s Day,” which became Armenian kiraki for Sunday; this association yields the popular folk gloss “Sunday-born.”

The name is well attested in medieval Armenia, borne by the 13th-century historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi, and survives across the diaspora, especially in Western Armenian communities where the phonetic variant Giragos is common (as in the Surp Giragos Church of Diyarbakır). Documented variants and cognates include Kirakos/Kiragos, Giragos, Greek Kyriakos, and the Latinized Cyriacus; related surnames are Kirakosyan/Kirakossian and Giragosian. Meaning centers on devotion and belonging to God, with overtones of Sunday or churchly identity.

⚙ Kirakos is vanishingly rare. We count just 3 recorded uses of it worldwide, from 3 countries.