Panga
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A large broad-bladed knife (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈpaŋɡə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Panga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 1,653 people, counted by Instate.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 802K
- ESSpain1 in 5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 247K (inferred from the name graph)
1,653 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Panga
- English:/ˈpaŋɡə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)machete, panga (broad knife)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Panga is read
(measured from records)Panga is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Hindi58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Panga in Hindi.
- English15%
A large broad-bladed knife.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili9.1%
machete, panga (broad knife)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Panga is found
(measured from records)Panga 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 | 1,653 | 1 in 802K | 1.7K | Panga | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | Panga | 8 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
1,653 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Panga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, panga, pangasius, swai; fish of the genus Pangasius, especially when used as food
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to bang (emit bangs, for example by shooting)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, fish: Characidae: Brycinus longipinnis
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Milvi Pangab. 1945EEEstonian poet, children's writer (born 1945)
- George Chaula Pangab. 1954screenwriter
- Clayton Pangab. 1985CACanadian rugby union player
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Panga come from?
- machete, panga (broad knife) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Panga?
- In English /ˈpaŋɡə/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Panga mean?
- In English, A large broad-bladed knife.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Panga?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Panga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled panga. After it come Switzerland, Spain, Poland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Panga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Panga is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 247 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Panga?
- In India, the national register counted 1,653 people named Panga, about 1 in 802 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Panga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pangaThe 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, “Panga” — ranked 3658th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.