Pandeya
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɑndeɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pandeya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 26K
- QAQatar≈1 in 230K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
131,331 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Pandeya 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 | #638 | 131,331 | 1 in 10K | 131K | Pandeya | 73 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Pandeya | 30 |
| US United States | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Pandeya | 75 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Pandeya | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 893K | — | Pandeya | 26 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Pandeya | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Pandeya | 3 |
131,331 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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. 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)
- Mangal Pandeyb. 1827INnot in their usual nameIndia's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)
- Rahul Sankrityayanb. 1893INnot in their usual nameIndian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
- Basdeo Pandayb. 1933TTnot in their usual namePrime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001
- Chunky Pandeyb. 1962INnot in their usual nameIndian actor
- Neeraj Pandeyb. 1973INnot in their usual nameIndian film director
- Nitesh Pandeyb. 1973INnot in their usual nameIndian actor
- Poonam Pandeyb. 1991INnot in their usual nameIndian actress and model (born 1991)
- Chhavi Pandeyb. 1994INnot in their usual nameIndian actress and singer
- Ananya Pandayb. 1998INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1998-present)
- Prashant PandeyINnot in their usual nameIndian film director
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 131K | #158 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 48 | #6,130 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Pandeya?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑndeɪə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Pandeya have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 131 thousand people named Pandeya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pandeya.
- Where is Pandeya most common?
- Pandeya is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pandeya?
- In India, the national register counted 131,331 people named Pandeya, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Pandeya compared with other names?
- In India, Pandeya is the 638th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pandeyaThe 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, “Pandeya” — the 638th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.