Pones

surname · Latin script

Meaning: second-person singular present indicative of poner

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 256K
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.6M

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Poñes in BO Bolivia.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

second-person singular present indicative of poner

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pones 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 Pones is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,500 est.≈1 in 71K—Pones13
BR Brazil1351 in 1.6M135Pones20
US United States≈50 est.≈1 in 6.6M—Pones14
BO Bolivia≈45 est.≈1 in 256K—Poñes6
CO Colombia≈18 est.≈1 in 2.7M—Pones3

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Pones is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Indonesia, Germany

    Languages: English, Indonesian, Swahili

    Also written Poñes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Poneš

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Poneš

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Poñes

28 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pones 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, second-person singular future active indicative of pōnō

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Pones
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—135#50,347

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pones mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular present indicative of poner Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Pones have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Pones in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pones.
How common is the name Pones?
In Brazil, the national register counted 135 people named Pones, about 1 in 1.6 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, “Pones”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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