Names of Palau PW

Names in Palau are recorded in English and pau, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in English, pau.

Population: 22K
Name forms recorded: 1

BBuilt from 1 name forms in our corpus, 6 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Palau

2 naming traditions are in use in Palau, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Palau

Every record we hold for Palau — 1 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#	Name	Estimated bearers	How common

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Palau at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Scripts & spelling

Baulessurname

The best-attested names in Palau, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Palau?: We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
Is there one naming system in Palau?: No — 2 are described on this page (Micronesian, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Palau”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/PW (data snapshot 2026-10-09).