Pandur

surname · Latin script

Meaning: policeman

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pǎnduːr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pandur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 24K
  • SISlovenia1 in 70K

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈180 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PandurLatin(measured from records)
ПандурCyrillic(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)

policeman

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pandur 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.

Where Pandur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈180 est.≈1 in 22K—Pandur8
HR Croatia1731 in 24K173Pandur30
US United States≈48 est.≈1 in 7M—Pandur6
NO Norway441 in 124K44——
CH Switzerland331 in 255K33——
SI Slovenia301 in 70K30Pandur5

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pandur is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Pandúr

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania

    Also written Pandúr

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pandur is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, soldier

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, PANDÚR, panduri, s. m. 1. Soldat dintr-un corp de oaste habsburgică din sec. XVIII. 2. Soldat din oastea muntenească neregulată de la începutul sec. XIX. ♦ Spec. Soldat din oastea lui Tudor Vladimirescu. ♦ Ostaș în serviciul poliției după desființarea vechii miliții naționale. 3. (Înv. și pop.) Haiduc.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

1850190019502000József Pandur, b. 1888Ludvik Pandur, b. 1947Hans-Peter Pandur, b. 1958Tomaž Pandur, b. 1963Servet Pandur, b. 1970Tibor Hrs Pandur, b. 1985Ivor Pandur, b. 2000

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)

FormalPoštovani Pandur,Dear Pandur, (English)
InformalPoštovani Pandur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Pandur
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021173#4,817
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021143—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—44#28,244
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202433#25,467
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—30#10,691

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Pandur mean, and where does it come from?
policeman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pandur?
A machine transcription gives /pǎnduːr/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Pandur have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 178 people named Pandur in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pandur.
How common is the name Pandur?
In Croatia, the national register counted 173 people named Pandur in 2021, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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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, “Pandur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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