Panikkar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pænɪkkɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Panikkar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 516Kas Panicker(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 760Kas Panicker
- HNHonduras≈1 in 642K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Panikkar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 642K (inferred from the name graph)
1,744 named Panicker
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Panicker in IN India, US United States, AU Australia and 5 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Panikkar 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 | 1,744as Panicker | 1 in 760K | 1.7K | Panicker | 150 |
| CN China | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Panicker | 3 |
| US United States | 645as Panicker | 1 in 516K | 823 | Panicker | 172 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Panicker | 2 |
| AO Angola | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Panicker | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Panicker | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Panicker | 73 |
| SG Singapore | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Panicker | 23 |
| HN Honduras | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 642K | — | Panikkar | 1 |
1,744 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Raimon Panikkarb. 1918ESSpanish-Indian Catholic priest and theologian (1918-2010)
- K. N. Panikkarb. 1936INIndian historian (born 1936)
- M.V.N. Panikkarbotanist, phycologist
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6K | #121 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 424 | #10,430 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #18,449 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #20,369 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #30,714 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #11,485 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Panikkar?
- A machine transcription gives /pænɪkkɑɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Panikkar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Panicker, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Panikkar?
- In India, the national register counted 1,744 people named Panicker, about 1 in 760 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/panikkarThe 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, “Panikkar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.