Panayiota

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Panayiota has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Panayiota, 2024

1 in 669,000

Panayiota over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Panayiota?

Panayiota had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Panayiota sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Panayiota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Panayiotas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Panayiota was born before 2001 — so the typical Panayiota is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
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Choose a decade

2000s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Panayiota rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (10)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,090
1985

Spellings of Panayiota

Panayiota is not the most common spelling — Panagiota is, with 83.4% against Panayiota's 16.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Panayiota is used

Across 1910–2025, Panayiota was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Panayiota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Panayiota around the world

Where Panayiota ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #4,688
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Panayiota by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,090
1985
Peak year
2001
10 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Panayiota

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Sibling names for Panayiota

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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