Palestine

Locally spelled Palästina in DE Germany and Palastina in AT Austria.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Palestine, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Israel
• Canaan
• Zion
• East
• North
• Black
• Christian
• Irish
• America
• Jordan
• English
• Australia

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Palestine is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Палестин, Палестина, Palestin, Палесціна

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Palestine is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, ancient country, site of Holy Land

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In French, Palestine (a region of Western Asia, in the Middle East)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Charlemagne Palestineb. 1947USAmerican visual artist and musician

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

In which country does Palestine have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 93 people named Palestine in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palestine.

How common is the name Palestine?

Mondonomo estimates about 93 people in the United States have Palestine as their first surname, about 1 in 3.6 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.