Worldwide, Afanasy (Афанасий 
, Афанасій , Афанаси 
) is a common boy's first name. The given name Afanasy is characteristic of Moldova, where it is quite a common masculine name, Kazakhstan, where it is quite a rare boy's name, and Ukraine. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Very seldom, Afanasy is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Афанасий | Kazakhstan, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine |
| Афанасій | Ukraine |
| Афанаси | Kazakhstan, Armenia, Russia |
| Afanasy | Russia, Canada, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom |
Afanasy is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Jacques Vingtras , character in Le Bachelier; Afanassi Iwanowitsch , the operatic character in the opera Der Jahrmarkt von Sorotschinzy, The Fair at Sorochyntsi; Afanassi Iwanowitsch Totzki , the operatic character in the opera Der Idiot (Weinberg), The Idiot and Afanassi Iwanowitsch Barabaschkin , the operatic character in the opera Moskau, Tscherjomuschki, Moscow, Cheryomushki.
| afanasy vysotsky (b. 1340) |
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| afanasy yeropkin (b. 1446) |
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| afanasy gagarin (b. 1600) |
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afanasy kamynin (b. 1689) |
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| afanasy fedorovich pokorsky scribe of the regiment Starodubsky (b. 1668) |
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| afanasy davydov (b. 1699) |
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| afanasy repnin (b. 1700) |
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| afanasy lvov (b. 1703) |
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| afanasy dolgov (b. 1725) |
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| afanasy afanasyev (b. 1758) |
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afanasy somov (b. 1823) |
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afanasy borisov (b. 1872) |
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| afanasy lukhmanov (b. 1824) |
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| afanasy popov CN (b. 1828) |
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afanasy antipin Soviet children's writer (1922-1980) (b. 1922) |
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