Pakat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to approve, to agree
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pakat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 39th most common given name.
- NPNepal≈1 in 333as Prakash(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.4Kas Prakash
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.7Kas Prakash
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 Pakat 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #515 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 333 (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 named Prakash, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Prakash
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Prakash in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more and Prokash in BD Bangladesh.
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)
to approve, to agree
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pakat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 333 | 14 | Prakash | 106 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Prakash | 109 |
| BD Bangladesh | #791 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Prokash | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 738 | Prakash | 65 |
| US United States | — | 4,008as Prakash | 1 in 83K | 3.9K | Prakash | 337 |
| SG Singapore | #590 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Prakash | 81 |
| GY Guyana | — | 195as Prakash | 1 in 3.8K | 195 | — | — |
| IN India | #39 | — | — | 39K | Prakash | 316 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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)
Pakat 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 Indonesian, agreement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, hold (child) on knee or shoulder
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In enm, alternative form of pacquet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of pakka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mxc, hold (child) under arm
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #62,476 |
Reference works 1
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 Pakat mean, and where does it come from?
- to approve, to agree Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pakat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Prakash in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pakat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,008 people named Prakash in 2020, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Pakat compared with other names?
- In India, Pakat is the 39th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pakatThe 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, “Pakat” — the 39th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.