Pantelis — boys' name
207 babies named Pantelis in U.S. Social Security records since 1965, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Pantelis was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Pantelis in 1992 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Pantelis
The Social Security Administration has registered 207 babies named Pantelis between 1965 and 2022, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pantelis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Pantelis performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Pantelis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pantelis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Pantelis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 207 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Pantelis at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Pantelis popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1965
- Peak year (1992)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 58 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
207 total births across 58 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1992 with 10 births in a single year.
Pantelis by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 66 births that decade — 32% of Pantelis's all-time total
Pantelis decade highlights
- Peak decade 66 births
- Runner-up 42 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Pantelis's strongest decade
66 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Pantelis by state
Where Pantelis concentrates geographically — total births since 1965
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 23 | 11.1% |
23 of 207 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 11.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 11.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1965–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.