Pantaleon
Greek pan and leon give it a plain sense: all-lion, the whole animal in one name. Most Poles have never met one: only nine men carry it, so a Pantaleon stands alone on any list.
Pantaleon Pronunciation
Pantaleon is pronounced pahn-tah-LE-on (/pantaˈlɛɔn/).
What Pantaleon means
Where Pantaleon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pantaleon comes from Greek. Put together pan, meaning all, and leon, the lion, and the name reads as all-lion, cały lew in Polish. The whole animal sits inside those four syllables.
History gave the name a face. Pantaleon of Nicomedia was a physician at the court of Emperor Galerius Maximian. After his conversion he treated the sick without charge, and he was martyred around 305. The Church counts him among the Fourteen Holy Helpers and keeps him as a patron of doctors.
A boy called Pantaleon carries a healer as well as a lion.
In Poland his name day falls on 27 July, the date printed beside any Pantaleon in a parish calendar or a school register. The name is rare now, which makes each bearer easy to spot on a class list. What holds steady under the rarity is the meaning underneath: all-lion.
When Pantaleon celebrates name day
Pantaleon appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Pantaleon
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Pantaleon. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #17739 among male names.
Pantaleon as a middle name
Pantaleon is a first name for 9 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3165th, between Pankajkumar (10) and Parvez (10).
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#3163 Oz10
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#3164 Pankajkumar10
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#3165 Pantaleon10
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#3166 Parvez10
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#3167 Pastor10