Pallai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pæɫəi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pallai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 36M(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 592K
- ITItaly≈1 in 802K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 592K (inferred from the name graph)
112 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Pallai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 119 | Pallai | 31 |
| EG Egypt | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Pallai | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 802K | listed | — | 1 |
| IN India | 37 | 1 in 36M | 37 | Pallai | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 8 | Pallai | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Pallai | 7 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Pallai | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
112 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Katalin Pallaib. 1959HUHungarian political scientist, art historian and architect
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 119 | #142,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 37 | #54,235 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #10,560 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #69,645 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #23,447 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Pallai?
- A machine transcription gives /pæɫəi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Pallai have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 112 people named Pallai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pallai.
- How common is the name Pallai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Pallai in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pallaiThe 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, “Pallai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.