Pálma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: palm tree
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/paːlmɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pálma is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 16K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 246Kas Paelma
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pálma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 460 (inferred from the name graph)
36,716 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Palma in US United States, PH Philippines, EC Ecuador and 2 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)palm tree
Cited for this meaning 1
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pálma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | — | 36,716 | 1 in 460 | 37K | Palma | 30 |
| US United States | — | 20,636 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Palma | 384 |
| AR Argentina | — | 18,916 | 1 in 2.4K | 19K | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 16,293 | 1 in 3.1K | 16K | Palma | 69 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,813 | 1 in 877 | 5.8K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 617 | 1 in 14K | 617 | Palma | 26 |
| PH Philippines | #172 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Palma | 103 |
36,716 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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 2020; INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Pálma is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, palm, palm tree (a tree of the family Arecaceae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pálma von Pászthoryb. 1884HUHungarian violinist, music teacher (1884–1958)
- Edit Félb. 1910HUnot in their usual nameethnographer (1910–1988)
- Pálma Gyimesib. 1922HUHungarian actress (1922–2017)
- Pálma Ungerb. 1946HUHungarian actor
- Pálma Morvayb. 1954HUHungarian singer (1954–)
- Pálma Baloghb. 1960HU(1960–)
- Pálma Csiszár-Salomonb. 1975HUHungarian Esperantist
- Pálma Királyb. 1991HUHungarian tennis player
- Pálma Siskab. 1992HUHungarian handball player (1992–)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pálma mean, and where does it come from?
- palm tree Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
- How do you pronounce Pálma?
- A machine transcription gives /paːlmɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- Is Pálma a male or female name?
- Pálma is a female 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 Pálma have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Pálma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palma.
- Where is Pálma most common?
- Pálma is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 460 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pálma?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 36,716 people named Pálma in 2024, about 1 in 460 residents.
- How common is Pálma compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Pálma is the 172nd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pálma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1lmaThe 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, “Pálma” — the 172nd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.