Pakpahan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Angkola Batak or Toba Batak
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pakpahan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CUCuba≈1 in 233K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 272K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 surname from Angkola Batak or Toba Batak
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pakpahan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #469 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Pakpahan | 128 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Pakpahan | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | — | Pakpahan | 47 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Pakpahan | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Pakpahan | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | Pakpahan | 5 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Pakpahan | 1 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
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
- What does the name Pakpahan mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Angkola Batak or Toba Batak Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pakpahan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Pakpahan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pakpahan.
- How common is the name Pakpahan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38,000 people in Indonesia have Pakpahan as their first surname, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Pakpahan compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Pakpahan is the 469th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pakpahanThe 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, “Pakpahan” — the 469th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.