Pando
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: crooked, bent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pando/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pando is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Pando is read(measured from records)
Pando is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish56%
crooked, bent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pando in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pando counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3.1K | — |
| ES Spain | — | 2.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 519 | — |
| IN India | — | 107 | — |
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; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Pando is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, to spread or open (out), extend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, concave; caved in
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)
- Miguel de la Torre y Pandob. 1786ESSpanish general and governor of Puerto Rico (1786-1843)
- José María Pandob. 1787PESpanish-Peruvian diplomat (1787-1840)
- Martín Pandob. 1934ARArgentine association football player (1934–2021)
- Juan Pandob. 1943ESSpanish historian
- Francisco Pandob. 1962ESSpanish botanist
- José Luis Sierrab. 1968CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Frank Pandob. 1971CLactor
- Víctor Loyolab. 1981CLnot in their usual nameChilean football player
- Andy Pandob. 1983PEPeruvian footballer
- José Ramón Hernández PandoESSpanish politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,022 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #2,361 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #2,361 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 519 | #16,515 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 107 | #27,199 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #12,977 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Pando come from?
- A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pando?
- A machine transcription gives /pando/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pando mean?
- In Spanish, crooked, bent
- In which country does Pando have the most bearers?
- Pando is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Pando?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pandoThe 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, “Pando”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.