Pànk
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pànk is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- LCSt. Lucia≈1 in 20K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Lucia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pank in US United States, GB United Kingdom, LC St. Lucia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk. unexplained; perhaps from either a nickname from Middle English pank of obscure origin, or a Continental locative name (compare John du Pank of Remy, 1330 in Patent Rolls). Further information: Willelmus Penk, 1379 in Poll Tax (Dunton with Doughton, Norfolk) may be an early form of this name in north Norfolk.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pànk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Pank | 5 |
| US United States | — | 168 | 1 in 2M | 183 | Pank | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 491K | 238 | Pank | 72 |
| DK Denmark | — | 73 | 1 in 80K | 73 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 24 | 1 in 232K | 24 | — | 1 |
| LC St. Lucia | #753 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Pank | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pànk mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Pànk a male or female name?
- Pànk is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pànk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 325 people named Pànk in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pank.
- How common is the name Pànk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 168 people named Pànk in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Pànk compared with other names?
- In St. Lucia, Pànk is the 753rd most common surname of 1,667 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A0nkThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pànk” — the 753rd most common surname in St. Lucia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.