Pánk
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pánk is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk.
- DKDenmark1 in 80K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 232K
- USUnited States1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
168 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
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, IN India.
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 the surname Pánk is found
(measured from records)Pánk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 168 | 1 in 2M | 183 | Pank | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 73 | 1 in 80K | 73 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 24 | 1 in 232K | 24 | — | — |
| IN India | 6 | 1 in 221M | 6 | Pank | 2 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
168 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pánk 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 Pánk a male or female name?
- Pánk 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pánk?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 168 people named Pánk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pank. After it come Denmark, Finland, India and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pánk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pánk is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 80 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pánk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 168 people named Pánk in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Pánk?
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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%A1nkThe 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, “Pánk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.