Given name & surname
Pantaleon
“all, every”·“lion”
Pantaleon is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pantaleon is built from elements meaning “all, every” and “lion”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Pantaleon has more than one origin: in one tradition, it comes from Ancient Greek Πανταλέων; as a Spanish surname, it comes from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pantaleon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 60
- 60 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 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 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 376 as a first name in 2020; 2,499 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.
Pantaleon’s family of names
In Polish usage, Pantaleon has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form PANTALEO. In Polish usage, Pantaleon has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form PANTALEONE. In Polish usage, Pantaleon has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Pantaleão.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Pantaleon has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pantaleon
- PantaleonIndo-Greek king200 BC–200 BC
- Pantaleon SzyndlerPolish painter (1846-1905)
- Pantaleon HebenstreitGerman composer and music educator1668–1750
- Pantaleon CandidusGerman author, historian and theologian (1540-1608)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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