Panela

org · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: pot, pan

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

Panela is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil
  • COColombia
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

pot, pan

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Panela is read(measured from records)

Panela is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese91%

    pot, pan

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

    cooking pot

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

  • English17%

    An unrefined sugar product typical of Latin America, which is basically a solid piece of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane.

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

  • Spanish8.9%

    panela (solid piece of unrefined sugar)

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Panela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Panela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—745Panela19
CO Colombia——Panela8
MX Mexico——Panela11
US United States—334—60
AR Argentina—19—21

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Panela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of panel

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

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Panela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010121#138,304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020112#147,954
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—89#69,079
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—19—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Panela mean, and where does it come from?
pot, pan Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Panela have the most bearers?
Panela is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled panela.

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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, “Panela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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