Pandu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A mytho-historical figure from India, best known as the father of another group of figures, the Pandavas in Mahabharata
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pˈandu/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Pandu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Namibia it is the 40th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 32Kfew records
- SESweden≈1 in 570K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)A mytho-historical figure from India, best known as the father of another group of figures, the Pandavas in Mahabharata.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pandu 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 | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1K | Pandu | 110 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Pandu | 4 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 4 | Pandu | 15 |
| NA Namibia | #40 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Pandu | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Pandu | 106 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Pandu | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Pandu 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 Indonesian, guard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, royal, artist
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, in Kenia und Tansania vorkommender männl. Vom., der auf Suaheli »kunstvoll« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
pale. white.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
artistic
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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)- Ussi Amme Pandub. 1959TZTanzanian politician
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.1K | #1,840 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1K | #5,276 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #376,780 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pandu mean, and where does it come from?
- A mytho-historical figure from India, best known as the father of another group of figures, the Pandavas in Mahabharata. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pandu?
- In Indonesian /pˈandu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Pandu a male or female name?
- Pandu is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Pandu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Pandu in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pandu.
- How common is the name Pandu?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Pandu in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Pandu compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Pandu is the 40th most common given name of 327 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/panduThe 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, “Pandu” — the 40th most common given name in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.