Chronological graph: Aa-anch
The above graph is based on name occurrences in Greek texts dated to a single century included in the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (state of October 2008). It renders the relative frequency (expressed in %) of all variants of this name amongst all name attestations in these texts, not taking any prosopographical identifications into account.
The table below gives the absolute number of name attestations per century. This number is the total of all name attestations in texts which can be ascribed reliably to one single century. It does not include name attestations in texts which are dated to a period spanning several centuries.
| Century | Number of texts |
| BC 3 | 24,475 |
| BC 2 | 25,092 |
| BC 1 | 9,357 |
| AD 1 | 39,234 |
| AD 2 | 111,072 |
| AD 3 | 47,275 |
| AD 4 | 31,199 |
| AD 5 | 7,185 |
| AD 6 | 21,641 |
| AD 7 | 8,724 |
| AD 8 | 6,217 |