Palamá

surname · Latin script

Palamá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 270K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 590Kfew records
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 600K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈320 people, est.

Record sources
83 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Palama in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 3 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Palamá 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.

Where Palamá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈320 est.≈1 in 775K—Palama1
NG Nigeria≈300 est.≈1 in 770K—Palama11
FR France≈260 est.≈1 in 269K67——
PH Philippines≈200 est.≈1 in 594K—Palama14
US United States1851 in 1.8M185Palama83
IT Italy≈170 est.≈1 in 356KlistedPalama8
RE Réunion≈110 est.≈1 in 7.4K—Palama8
CH Switzerland141 in 600K14—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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Palamá is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Palama, Palamà, Palamã

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Spain

    Also written Palamà, Palama, Palama', Palamã

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Palama, Palamà

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Palamá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Palamá have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 324 people named Palamá in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palama.
How common is the name Palamá?
In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Palamá in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Palamá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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