Pannu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pannu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 463K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 46K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 61K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pannu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Pannu | 18 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Pannu | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Pannu | 88 |
| US United States | 719 | 1 in 463K | 1.1K | Pannu | 185 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Pannu | 19 |
| NO Norway | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | Pannu | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Pannu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, pan (flat vessel used for cooking)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, accusative singular of panna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, frying pan made of iron
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sjm, sea turtle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Maltese, cloth
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Surinder Pannub. 1939INbadminton player
- Taapsee Pannub. 1987INIndian actress (born 1987)
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 719 | #32,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 374 | #52,174 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,187 |
| 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
- In which country does Pannu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Pannu in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pannu.
- How common is the name Pannu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 719 people named Pannu in 2010, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pannuThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pannu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.