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Sources

Data as code: every date and name mapping on this site traces back to one of the sources below. Nothing is hand-typed into a page without a citation living here first.

How we grade

The two-source rule

A feast date or name mapping earns a ✓ sourced badge only when two sources confirm it AND those two sources don't share ancestry — one can't simply be citing the other, or both citing the same upstream text. We track each source's lineage (what it derives from) and the build fails outright if a "verification pair" turns out to share an ancestor. Anything short of that — a single source, however good, or a mapping still resting on a judgment call — renders ⚠ unverified and stays out of the feeds until it's confirmed.

Every source

GradeSource
B Big Think / Strange Maps — 'How Greek surnames reveal their geographic origins' (Frank Jacobs, editorial map)
B Dr Phil Kafcaloudes / Neos Kosmos (2022) — 'Anglicisation of Greek family names: how Greeks went English to survive in Australia'
B Nick Nicholas — Kostas→Gus anglicisation analysis (expert blog)
C Bournias genealogy notes — Greek given-name variants (practitioner page, self-caveated)
C DCGreeks.com — anonymous community humour essay on Greek-name anglicisation
C GreekBoston.com — uncited name-day / name-variant compilation
C Sam Topalidis — 'The Origin of Current Greek and Turkish Surnames' (Pontos World), drawing on Catsakis (2003)
C Wikipedia — 'Greek Cypriot name'
C Wikipedia — 'Maniots', surnames section (citing L. Alexakis, 'Form and evolution of Mani surnames', mani.org.gr)
T1 GOARCH online chapel calendar (Greek Archdiocese of America)
T1 Σωφρόνιος Ευστρατιάδης — «Αγιολόγιον της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας» (Αποστολική Διακονία). Edition/ISBN NOT in 02-data.md — pin at purchase.
T1 Χρ. Τσολακίδης — «Αγιολόγιο της Ορθοδοξίας» (εκδ. ιδίου; via Church of Greece bookstores). Edition/ISBN NOT in 02-data.md — pin at purchase.
T2 namedays.gr / eortologio.gr online database
T2 OCA daily calendar (Slavic lineage — dates only, never name→feast)