Pama
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Synonym of Paamese (“a language of Vanuatu”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 785Kas Pamu(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 65K
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
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 Pama 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
1,690 named Pamu
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pam in US United States, BD Bangladesh.
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(measured from records)
Synonym of Paamese (“a language of Vanuatu”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pama 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 | 1,690as Pamu | 1 in 785K | 1.7K | Pama | 41 |
| US United States | 806as Pam | 1 in 413K | 44K | Pam | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | 267 | 1 in 65K | 595 | Pama | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 117as Pam | 1 in 1.8M | 117 | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Pam | 5 |
| ES Spain | 39 | 1 in 1.3M | 39 | — | 1 |
1,690 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling pamu. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Pama is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a hamlet in Westerkwartier, Groningen, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to swoon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-pro, beach
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqs, what?
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bertha Belinfanteb. 1880NLnot in their usual namecellist from the Netherlands
- Cornelis Pamab. 1916ZADutch heraldist and genealogist (1916 - 1994)
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 306 | #69,166 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 267 | #7,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 211 | #88,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 167 | #100,194 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 70 | #4,752 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54 | #99,355 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #52,892 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39 | #52,638 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #62,455 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Pama mean, and where does it come from?
- Synonym of Paamese (“a language of Vanuatu”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pama?
- A machine transcription gives /pəmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pama have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Pamu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pama most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pama is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 65 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pama?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 267 people named Pama in 2007, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pamaThe 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, “Pama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.