Panday
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pændeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Panday is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 4.7Kas Pandey
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.6Kas Pandi
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 Panday 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #214 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
284,757 named Pandey
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pandey in IN India, ID Indonesia, Pandi in SG Singapore and Panda in VN Vietnam.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Panday 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 | #35 | 284,757as Pandey | 1 in 4.7K | 285K | Pandey | 316 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Pandey | 59 |
| BD Bangladesh | #478 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Panday | 30 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Panday | 38 |
| VN Vietnam | #299 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Panda | 38 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Panday | 20 |
| SG Singapore | #350 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Pandi | 60 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Panday | 7 |
| GY Guyana | #479 | 220 | 1 in 3.4K | 220 | Panday | 2 |
284,757 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Panday is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlm, artisan-craftsman; expert; specialist (properly an industrial artist, in contrast to a mere skilled artisan)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mrw, craftsmen such as carpenters or masons; midwife
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nij, artisan, skilled craftsman
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In msk, to build, to craft
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Iloko, blacksmith
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, swordmaker
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)
- Mangal Pandeyb. 1827INIndia's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)
- Rahul Sankrityayanb. 1893INnot in their usual nameIndian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
- Basdeo Pandayb. 1933TTPrime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001
- Chunky Pandeyb. 1962INIndian actor
- Neeraj Pandeyb. 1973INIndian film director
- Nitesh Pandeyb. 1973INIndian actor
- Poonam Pandeyb. 1991INIndian actress and model (born 1991)
- Chhavi Pandeyb. 1994INIndian actress and singer
- Ananya Pandayb. 1998INIndian actress (1998-present)
- Prashant PandeyINIndian film director
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.8K | #234 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.6K | #2,543 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 220 | #406 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Panday?
- A machine transcription gives /pændeɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Panday have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 285 thousand people named Pandey, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Panday most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Panday is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Panday?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 220 people named Panday in 2025, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Panday compared with other names?
- In India, Panday is the 35th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Panday?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pandayThe 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, “Panday” — the 35th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.