Palushaj
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic form of Palush (“Paulus”)
/pələshaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Palushaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 15K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 17K
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
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
214 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic form of Palush (“Paulus”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palushaj 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 | 214 | 1 in 1.6M | 224 | Palushaj | 101 |
| AL Albania | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Palushaj | 15 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Palushaj | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 125 | 1 in 67K | 125 | Palushaj | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Palushaj | 2 |
| HU Hungary | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 381K | — | Palushaj | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 17 | 1 in 124K | 17 | Palushaj | 1 |
214 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Aaron Palushajb. 1989USAmerican ice hockey 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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 224 | #88,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 214 | #86,981 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 125 | #9,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 124 | #127,186 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 17 | #14,830 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Palushaj mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic form of Palush (“Paulus”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Palushaj?
- A machine transcription gives /pələshaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Palushaj have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 214 people named Palushaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palushaj.
- How common is the name Palushaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 214 people named Palushaj in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million 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/palushajThe 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, “Palushaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.