Palle
loc · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., friesisch-niederländische (DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Palle is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 18K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 32K
- FRFrance≈1 in 240K
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 Palle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
14,191 named Pilli
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Palle in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pilli in IN India, US United States, TZ Tanzania and Pelli in FI Finland, CH Switzerland.
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)männl. Vom., friesisch-niederländische
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Palle is found
(measured from records)Palle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 14,191as Pilli | 1 in 93K | 14K | Pilli | 91 |
| FI Finland | 3,375as Pulli | 1 in 1.7K | 3.4K | Pelli | 4 |
| US United States | 1,968as Pilla | 1 in 169K | 2K | Pilli | 116 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Pilli | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 1,060as Pilla | 1 in 200K | 1.1K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 191as Pelli | 1 in 44K | 191 | Pelli | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 187 | 1 in 18K | 187 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 186 | 1 in 32K | 6.1K | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 16 | — | 2 |
14,191 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Palle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, synonym of penger (“slope”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, hem (border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of palleō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, indefinite dative/ablative singular of pallë
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, partitive plural of pall
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)- Per Palle Stormb. 1910NOsculptor (1910–1994)
- Palle Torben Huldb. 1912DKDanish actor (1912–2010)
- Palle Kjærulff-Schmidtb. 1931DKFilm director, Screenwriter (1931-2018)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Palle mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom., friesisch-niederländische Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Palle?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Pilli, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Finland, United States, Tanzania and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Palle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palle is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Palle?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 187 people named Palle, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palleThe 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, “Palle” — ranked 781st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.