Panayiotis

#13,387 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Panagiotis

Panayiotis has been given to 308 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #13,387 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Panayiotis, 2025

1 in 663,000

Panayiotis over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Panayiotis: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Panagiotis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Panayiotis means

Panayiotis is a alternate transcription of Panagiotis.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Panayiotis is used in Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Panayiotis → Panagiotis. The family’s meaning is “all holy”, recorded in the naming reference for Panagiotis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Panagiotis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 308 boys were recorded with the name Panayiotis between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2003; its best national rank was #4,377 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,638 in 2020 to #13,387 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,335 in 2015 to #13,387 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Panayiotis?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,387
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Panayiotis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Panayiotis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Panayiotiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Panayiotis was born before 2002 — so the typical Panayiotis is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
308
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2000s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Panayiotis 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
−1,414
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,749
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,052
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2003 (13)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,377
1988

Spellings of Panayiotis

Panayiotis is not the most common spelling — Panagiotis is, with 81.1% against Panayiotis's 18.9%.

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.

Panayiotis around the world

Where Panayiotis 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Panayiotis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,387
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,749
Best rank ever
#4,377
1988
Peak year
2003
13 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
308
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Panayiotis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Panayiotis

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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