Given name & surname
Panos
“as solid as a rock”
Panos is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “as solid as a rock.”
Original GreekΠάνος
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “as solid as a rock.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Panos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 314 as a first name in 2020; 1,824 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Panos’s family of names
In English usage, Panos has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Πάνος.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Panos
- Panos H. KoutrasGreek film director
- Panagiotis BeglitisGreek politicianborn 1957
- Panos PanagiotopoulosGreek politicianborn 1957
- Panos KoronaiosGreek politician and soldier (1809–1899)
- Panos KatserisGreek footballerborn 2001
- Panos AravantinosGreek scenographer and custom designer (1884–1930)
- Panos KiamosGreek singerborn 1975
- Panos MouzourakisGreek singer kai actorborn 1979
- Panos ValavanisGreek classical archaeologist1954–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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