Palm
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Plant name (Bot:), as house sign, North Baden 1809, Middle Rhine
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Palm is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 2.8Kas Pam(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.1Kas Pam
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.2Kas Pam
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 Palm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- 1 in 331 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 named Pam, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Poul
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pam in ES Spain, DK Denmark, NG Nigeria and 2 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(measured from records)
Plant name (Bot:), as house sign, North Baden 1809, Middle Rhine.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Pam | 23 |
| US United States | #538 | 44,546as Pam | 1 in 7.5K | 101K | Palm | 521 |
| ES Spain | — | 23,717as Pol | 1 in 2.1K | 24K | Pam | 49 |
| DK Denmark | — | 17,757as Poul | 1 in 331 | 18K | Pam | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pam | 61 |
| CA Canada | #394 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 1 | Palm | 219 |
| AU Australia | #486 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 4 | Palm | 192 |
| NZ New Zealand | #347 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Pam | 103 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Palm 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 English, Palm Tree; also the store, or palm-bearing pilgrim
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, , fam., act. < subst. paltin; prob. Palttnea, M. (Vr C 152) ; Paltinescu, St (TC IV). Cu subst. de terminatie Palle mold. (Sd XXI) ; Pelte (Ard) ; Palta, Mihai (Cat Bras 114).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Dutch, any palm, (tropical tree of the family Palmae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, palm (tropical tree)
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)
- Etta Palmb. 1743NLDutch feminist and spy
- Johann Philipp Palmb. 1768DEexecuted German bookseller (1766-1806)
- August Palmb. 1849SESwedish politician (1849-1922)
- Erwin Walter Palmb. 1910DEGerman historian (1910–1988)
- Siegfried Palmb. 1927DEGerman cellist (1927–2005)
- Torsten Palmb. 1947SESwedish racing driver
- Katharina Palmb. 1963DEGerman writer and actor
- Michael Palmb. 1965ATAustrian filmmaker
- Andrea Palmb. 1973USUnited States government official
- Cortney Palmb. 1987USAmerican actress and author (born 1987)
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)
Attested in 36 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7K | #4,986 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.8K | #4,975 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.8K | #4,754 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 674 | #616 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #46,139 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- What does the name Palm mean, and where does it come from?
- Plant name (Bot:), as house sign, North Baden 1809, Middle Rhine. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- In which country does Palm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 294 thousand people named Pam in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Palm most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Palm itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 331 people named Poul.
- How common is the name Palm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,546 people named Pam in 2020, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Palm compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Palm is the 347th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Palm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palmThe 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, “Palm” — the 347th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.