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Pantelis

Boys' name

Short form of Panteleimon

Pantelis has been given to 208 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1992, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Pantelis, 2022

1 in 564,000

Pantelis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pantelis: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Panteleimon

Greek

What Pantelis means

Pantelis is a short form of Panteleimon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pantelis is used in Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /pan.de.ˈlis/ for Pantelis.

Origin, language, and formation

Pantelis is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

Pantelis comes through Greek Παντελής.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Panteleimon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 208 boys were recorded with the name Pantelis between 1965 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,458 in 1966.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pantelis?

Pantelis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pantelis 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pantelis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Panteliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pantelis was born before 1989 — so the typical Pantelis is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
208
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1970s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Pantelis 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 1992 (10)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,458
1966

Where Pantelis is used

Across 1910–2025, Pantelis was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 579,297 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Pantelis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pantelis around the world

Where Pantelis 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.

  • South Australia
    1956–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pantelis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,458
1966
Peak year
1992
10 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
208
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pantelis

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

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Sibling names for Pantelis

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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