Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pantelis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 208
- 208 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 10 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 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 420 as a first name in 2020; 293 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.
Pantelis’s family of names
In English usage, Pantelis has a related form in PANDELIS. In English usage, Pantelis was borrowed from the Greek form Παντελής. In Greek usage, Pantelis as a surname is a transliteration of Παντέλης.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pantelis
- Pantelis KafesGreek footballerborn 1978
- Pantelis KapetanosGreek footballerborn 1983
- Pantelis PantelidisGreek singer (1983–2016)
- Pantelis VoulgarisGreek film director, screenwriterborn 1940
- Pantelis KonstantinidisGreek footballerborn 1975
- Pantelis PsychasGreek water polo player1887
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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