Panchu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: naampy, 2015
Panchu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Panchu is also written পঞ্চ in Bengali and ปาณัช in Thai.
- INIndia≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 58M
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 500Kfew recordsas Pancha
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 Panchu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Panchu in other scripts: Bengali and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pancha in US United States, MY Malaysia.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Panchu 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 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 209 | Panchu | 65 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 717K | — | Panchu | 2 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 624K | — | Panchu | 7 |
| US United States | 235as Poncho | 1 in 1.4M | 1.4K | Pancha | 61 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 503K | — | Pancha | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Panchu | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Panchu | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Panchu | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Panchu a male or female name?
- Panchu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Panchu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Panchu in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled panchu. After it come Indonesia, Bangladesh, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Panchu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 235 people named Poncho in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Panchu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/panchuThe 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, “Panchu” — ranked 17211th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.