Stratos as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Stratos

What is the meaning of the name Stratos ?

The baby name Stratos is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced STRAH-tos (Greek: /ˈstratos/, English approximation: /ˈstrɑːtɒs/).

Stratos is Greek in Origin.

Stratos (Στράτος) is a Greek masculine name, chiefly a familiar form of Efstratios/Eustratios (Ευστράτιος), from eu "good, well" + stratos "army, host," yielding "well-armied" or "of the good army." As an independent given name, Stratos also draws directly on ancient Greek stratos "army; host," carrying the sense "soldier" or "man of the host."

Recorded in Byzantine sources via the veneration of Saint Eustratius of Sebaste (4th c.), the name persisted in medieval and modern Greece and remained familiar through the 20th century, including in the diaspora. Notable bearers include singer Stratos Dionysiou. Variants and diminutives: Efstratios/Eustratios, Stratis; Latinized Eustratius; Slavic forms Yevstratii/Evstratiy; feminine Efstratia/Eustratia. Related but distinct is the ancient name Straton. English speakers sometimes associate it with "stratosphere," but that term derives from Latin stratum and is etymologically unrelated.