Palac
surname · Latin script
Meaning: thumb
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɑɫək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Palac is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- HRCroatia1 in 18K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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)
thumb
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palac 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Palac | 26 |
| PL Poland | 366 | 1 in 105K | 187 | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 838K | — | Palac | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 240 | 1 in 18K | 240 | Palac | 38 |
| US United States | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 161 | Palac | 93 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Palac | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Palac | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Palac 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 Serbo-Croatian, pollex
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Mladen Palacb. 1971HRCroatian chess player
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 240 | #3,459 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 210 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 187 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 187 | #17,253 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 179 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 179 | #18,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 150 | #116,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 148 | #110,523 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Palac mean, and where does it come from?
- thumb Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Palac?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑɫək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Palac have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Palac in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palac.
- Where is Palac most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palac is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Palac?
- In Poland, the national register counted 366 people named Palac in 2026, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palacThe 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, “Palac”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.