Panther
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pænθə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Panther is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 196K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 256K
- DMDominica1 in 74K
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)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
1,300 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Panther is read(measured from records)
Panther is one spelling over 2 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.
- English80%
Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.7%
panther, black panther (a leopard or other big cat with black fur)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Panther 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 | 1,300 | 1 in 256K | 1.3K | Panther | 207 |
| DE Germany | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Panther | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 196K | 457 | Panther | 97 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Panther | 18 |
| IT Italy | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Panther | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Panther | 56 |
| AT Austria | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Panther | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Panther | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Panther | 23 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
1,300 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); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Panther 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 Dutch, obsolete form of panter
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)
- Cyril Pantherb. 1938NGNigerian boxer
- Lorinda Pantherb. 1963NZAssociation footballer
- Anne Pantherb. 1982DEGerman FIBA basketball official (born 1982)
- Manny Pantherb. 1984GBScottish association football player (born 1984)
- Roxy Pantherb. 1987HUHungarian pornographic actress
- Clinton Pantherb. 1991ZAField Hockey 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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,056 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 457 | #12,173 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Panther mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of various big cats with black fur; most especially, the black-coated leopard of Africa and Asia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Panther?
- A machine transcription gives /pænθə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Panther have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Panther, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled panther.
- Where is Panther most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Panther is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Panther?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,300 people named Panther in 2010, about 1 in 256 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/pantherThe 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, “Panther”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.