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Panagiota vs Pansie

American parents have registered 561 Panagiotas since 1880, against 78 Pansies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Panagiota against Pansie, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Panagiota Pansie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Panagiota for 50 years and Pansie for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Panagiota Pansie
Total US births 56178
Most in one year 2710
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5407
Median age today 4281
Peak year 19761918
Best rank 2,792nd girls3,024th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19181906
Girls / boys 561 / 078 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pansies alive today are over 81; half the Panagiotas are over 42. That is 39 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Panagiota and Pansie.