Pandya

surname · Latin script

Meaning: born of Pandu

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pandya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 95K
  • INIndia1 in 1.1M

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,512 people, 2010

Sources
294 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

born of Pandu.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pandya 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 Pandya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,5121 in 95K4.8KPandya294
PK Pakistan≈2,000 est.≈1 in 116K—Pandya4
IN India1,2151 in 1.1M1.2KPandya230
GB United Kingdom≈1,200 est.≈1 in 54K2.1KPandya120
CA Canada≈790 est.≈1 in 47K—Pandya93
MY Malaysia≈440 est.≈1 in 75K—Pandya11
NZ New Zealand≈66 est.≈1 in 75K—Pandya16
EE Estonia≈19 est.≈1 in 64Klisted—2

3,512 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

Pandya is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Paṇḍyā

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Paṇḍyā, Pāṇḍyā

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pandyá

  • Bangla surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

    Also written Paṇḍyā

54 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Kantilal Pandya, b. 1886Arvind Pandya, b. 1923Deepak Pandya, b. 1932Steffan Pandya, b. 1971Hardik Pandya, b. 1993

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 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Pandya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.8K#6,723
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.5K#9,271
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.2K#12,936
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20022.1K#3,517
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.2K#4,723
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—122#3,224
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Pandya mean, and where does it come from?
born of Pandu. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
In which country does Pandya have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Pandya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pandya.
How common is the name Pandya?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,512 people named Pandya in 2010, about 1 in 95 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, “Pandya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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