Pelli
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A vernacular form of Pekka; compare Swedish Pelle.
- INIndia1 in 93Kas Pilli(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 44K
- FIFinland1 in 1.7Kas Pulli
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 Pelli 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)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
14,191 named Pilli
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pilli in IN India, US United States, TZ Tanzania.
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 vernacular form of Pekka; compare Swedish Pelle.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelli 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 |
| BR Brazil | 1,060as Pilla | 1 in 200K | 1.1K | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Pilli | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 191 | 1 in 44K | 191 | Pelli | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 187as Palle | 1 in 18K | 187 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 186as Palle | 1 in 32K | 6.1K | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 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)
Pelli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative singular of pellis
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)
- Dominicus Pellib. 1657CHSwiss architect (1657-1728)
- Marco Pellib. 1696ITVenetian engraver (1696 - after 1760)
- Cipriano Pellib. 1750CHSwiss painter, politician and scenographer (1750-1822)
- Vittore Pellib. 1798CHSwiss painter and scenographer (1798-1874)
- Paride Pellib. 1910ITSwiss politician (1910-1968)
- César Pellib. 1926ARArgentine-American architect (1926–2019)
- Moshe Pellib. 1936ILIsraeli writer (1936–2026)
- Fulvio Pellib. 1951CHSwiss politician
- Matteo Pellib. 1978CHSwiss television presenter, writer and rapper
- Arttu Pellib. 1996FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Pelli mean, and where does it come from?
- A vernacular form of Pekka; compare Swedish Pelle. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pelli?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pelli have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Pilli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pelli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pelli is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pelli?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 191 people named Pelli in 2024, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pelli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelliThe 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, “Pelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.