Pana
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pana is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: city. IL.
- INIndia1 in 58Kas Pan(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 22K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 142K
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 Pana 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
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
22,805 named Pan
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pan 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(measured from records)
city. IL
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pana 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 | 22,805as Pan | 1 in 58K | 23K | Pana | 34 |
| US United States | 12,664as Pan | 1 in 26K | 18K | Pan | 19 |
| NP Nepal | 9,827as Pun | 1 in 3.1K | 9.8K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 4,323as Pan | 1 in 12K | 4.3K | — | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 142K | listed | Pana | 39 |
| UY Uruguay | 655as Pan | 1 in 5.2K | 655 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 260as Pan | 1 in 21K | 2.7K | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 234 | 1 in 22K | 234 | — | — |
22,805 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling pan. 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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Pana 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.
Visnu (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
El que juzga
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Filipino, bow (weapon)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, wide
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pmf, bow, formerly a weapon of the Toraja people and in more recent times still hung up in the blacksmith’s workshop as an example of the weapons and tools made there
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Pana Merchantb. 1943CACanadian politician
- Petra Ponevács-Panab. 1981HUHungarian lawyer, diplomat
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 572 | #8,357 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 551 | #7,388 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 551 | #7,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 430 | #52,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 335 | #60,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 268 | #68,569 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 234 | #914 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 112 | #3,430 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #42,126 |
| 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 Pana mean, and where does it come from?
- city. IL Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Pana have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Pan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pana is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pana?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 234 people named Pana, about 1 in 22 thousand 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/panaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.