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'''Kuriakose''' ({{lang-syr|ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ}}) is a common male [[first name]] and [[surname]] among [[Saint Thomas Christians]], mainly from central part of the state of [[Kerala]] in [[India]] and surrounding areas. Derivatives of the name Kuriakose include "Kurian" and "Kurien". This name is a variant of names found among Middle Eastern countries among the minority Syrian, Iranian and Iraqi Christians, 'Kuriakos' in Greece and '[[Cyriacus (disambiguation)|Cyriacus]] in Italy and '[[Saint Quiricus and Saint Julietta|Cyr]]' in France.<ref>{{cite web|title=Variations of Saint Kuriakose|url=https://sites.google.com/site/saintkuriakose/variations|website=Google Sites}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Assyro Chaldean saint Kuriakose |url=http://www.urmi.org/english/saints/martyrmarqoryaqos.htm|website=Saints of Urmia-Iran}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=References to Koriakos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHURAAAAYAAJ&q=koriakos&pg=PA242|website=History of Syrian Nation|last1 = Malech|first1 = George David|year = 1910}}</ref>

The name ''Kuriakose'' is derived from the [[Syriac language|Syriac Aramaic]] name ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ ([[Quriaqos and Julietta|''Quriaqos'']]).<ref>{{cite web|title=About Saint Kuriakose|url=https://sites.google.com/site/saintkuriakose/|website=Google Sites}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Syriac Aramaic Prayer for Saint Kuriakose and Eulita|url=http://www.ankawa.org/vshare/view/3318/madrasha-d-mar-qoryaqos-w-imai/|website=Ankhawa Syriac}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Syriac Aramaic Culture|url=http://www.syriacculture.com/sr/SrMoatDetails.php?recordID=67|website=Syriac Culture|access-date=2015-05-01|archive-url=https://archive.is/20150501101221/http://www.syriacculture.com/sr/SrMoatDetails.php?recordID=67|archive-date=2015-05-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The name is believed to have originated from [[Quriaqos and Julietta|Saint Quriaqos]] who is known in both Syriac and Latin liturgies<ref>{{cite web|title=Assyro Chaldean saint Kuriakose |url=http://www.urmi.org/english/saints/martyrmarqoryaqos.htm|website=Saints of Urmia-Iran}}</ref>
The meaning of "Kuriakose" most closely matches to "Lordian" or "Deriving from the Lord".<ref>{{cite web|title=Biblical baby names|url=http://www.biblical-baby-names.com/meaning-of-kuriakose.html|website=Biblical baby names}}</ref>

==Various forms of Kuriakose==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Names
! Areas of Concentration
|-
|Kuriakose / Kuryakose / Kuriyakose / Kurian / Kurien
|India (South Western region)
|-
|-
|Kuryakus / Kuryakos / Quriakos / Qoryaqos/
Quryaqos / Kiryakos / Koriakos
|Iraq (Nineveh Plains area), Turkey (Eastern region), Iran (Urmia area), Syria (North Eastern region), Lebanon, Armenia
|-
|-
|Kyriakos / Kuriakos / Kiryakos
|Greece, Israel, Palestine
|-
|-
|Cyriacus / Cyricus
|Italy
|-
|-
|Cyr
|France
|-
|-
|Kyriacos
|Egypt
|-
|}

==Notable people with name Kuriakose and its derivatives==
*[[Arackaparambil Kurien Antony]], former Defense Minister of India
*[[Benny Kuriakose]], conservation consultant
*[[Eden Kuriakose]], Indian actress
*[[Kuriakose Elias Chavara]], founder of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and a Catholic Saint
*[[T K Kurien]], CEO and Executive Director of Wipro Limited
*[[Thomas Kurian]], CEO of Google Cloud and Former President of Oracle Corporation
*[[Verghese Kurien]], founder of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
*[[Pius C. Kuriakose]], former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court
*[[Jomon Kuriakose]], chef in UK
==See also==
*[[Saint Thomas Christians]]
*[[Christianity in Syria|Syrian Christians]]
*[[Assyrians in Iran]]
*[[Assyrians in Iraq]]

==Notes==
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[[Category:Masculine given names]]
[[Category:Saint Thomas Christians]]

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