Palung
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Palung is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 135Kas พะลัง(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 270M
- INIndia1 in 66Mas Palang
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 Palung 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 270M (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 named พะลัง, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled พะลัง in TH Thailand, Palang in PH Philippines and Phalang in US United States.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palung 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 135K | #371,757 | พะลัง | 45 |
| IN India | 20as Palang | 1 in 66M | 20 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 270M | listed | Phalang | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Palang | 4 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 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.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Palung is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mvv, attic (space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, trench (a long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, cockscomb; rooster's comb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In clt, heart
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Palung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 509 people named พะลัง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Palung?
- In India, the national register counted 20 people named Palang, about 1 in 66 million residents.
What do you want to know about Palung?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palungThe 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, “Palung”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.