Pannala

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pænɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
  • SESweden1 in 2.6M

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.

India (measured from records)

431 people

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pannala 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 Pannala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India4311 in 3.1M431Pannala67
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.7MlistedPannala95
GB United Kingdom≈8 est.≈1 in 8.1M—Pannala13
SE Sweden41 in 2.6M4—2
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

431 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pannāla

  • Sinhala surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sri Lanka, United States, India

    Also written 'Pannala

  • Thai surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written ปานนะลา, ปันนาลา, ปานนาลา, ปนนาลา

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalआदरणीय Pannala जी,Respected Pannala ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Pannala जी,Hi Pannala, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Pannala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#72,893

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Pannala?
A machine transcription gives /pænɑɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Pannala have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 431 people named Pannala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pannala.
Where is Pannala most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pannala is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pannala?
In India, the national register counted 431 people named Pannala, about 1 in 3.1 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, “Pannala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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