Pantan

surname · Latin script

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

Pantan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 23M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

58 people

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Pantan 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.

Where Pantan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India581 in 23M58——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2—2
PH Philippines———Pantan7
US United States———Pantan4
AR Argentina———Pantan2

58 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pantan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written พันตัน, Panton, พันต้น, ปันตัน, ปันตุ่น

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pāntān

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pantan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ang, accusative/genitive/dative singular of Pante

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

  • In Italian, apocopic form of pantano

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

  • In bgz, forbidden

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Pantan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—58#40,525
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—7#117,745
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2#16,525

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Pantan have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 58 people named Pantan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pantan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pantan is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 2.5 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pantan?
In India, the national register counted 58 people named Pantan, about 1 in 23 million residents.

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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, “Pantan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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