Pannell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME panel ‘pannel of wainscot or saddle’; also metonymic for a maker of panels; first attested Simon Paneller 1240 Eynsham (O)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpænəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pannell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 38K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 44K
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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
8,687 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
from ME panel ‘pannel of wainscot or saddle’; also metonymic for a maker of panels; first attested Simon Paneller 1240 Eynsham (O)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pannell 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,687 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Pannell | 356 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 1.7K | Pannell | 140 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Pannell | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Pannell | 91 |
| CA Canada | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Pannell | 59 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Pannell | 24 |
| IS Iceland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Pannell | 1 |
8,687 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pannell 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 Breton, panneau
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (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)
- Florence Pannellb. 1868GBBritish supercentenarian
- Norman Pannellb. 1901GBBritish politician (1901-1976)
- Charles Pannellb. 1902GBBritish politician (1902-1980)
- Nita Veronica Pannellb. 1904AUAustralian teacher, actor and theatre director (1904–1994)
- Ernie Pannellb. 1917USAmerican football player (1917-1998)
- Mary Porterb. 1942GBnot in their usual nameAustralian politician (born 1942)
- David J. Pannellb. 1960AUeconomist (University of Western Australia)
- Richard Pannellb. 1973GBEnglish cricketer (born 1973)
- John R. PannellCHbotanist and ecologist
- Maddison PannellAmerican weightlifter
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.1K | #4,022 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.7K | #4,146 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Pannell mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME panel ‘pannel of wainscot or saddle’; also metonymic for a maker of panels; first attested Simon Paneller 1240 Eynsham (O) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Pannell?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpænəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pannell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Pannell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pannell.
- How common is the name Pannell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,687 people named Pannell in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pannellThe 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, “Pannell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.