Palai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pəɫeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Palai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 42Kas Palei(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 90K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 91K
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 Palai 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
31,855 named Palei
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Palei in IN India.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 31,855as Palei | 1 in 42K | 32K | Palei | 90 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Palai | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Palai | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Palai | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 535K | listed | — | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Palai | 3 |
| OM Oman | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Palai | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Palai | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Palai | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | — | — |
31,855 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Palai is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, Microlepia setosa, a native fern placed on the altar of Laka, goddess of the hula.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Samoan, Liane (Dioscorea sp.), one of the common yams
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of palare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tongan, kind of yam
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In niu, yam variety
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tpi, lizard
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 24K | #521 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 71 | #4,715 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Palai?
- A machine transcription gives /pəɫeɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Palai have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Palei, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Palai?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 12 people named Palai, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palaiThe 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, “Palai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.