Passon
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Passon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Field, former ballpark, Philadelphia,.
- DEGermany≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 819K
- NLNetherlands1 in 57K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Field, former ballpark, Philadelphia,
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Passon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Passon | 82 |
| US United States | 406 | 1 in 819K | 479 | Passon | 150 |
| NL Netherlands | 305 | 1 in 57K | 305 | Passon | 14 |
| PL Poland | 213 | 1 in 180K | 108 | Passon | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 169 | 1 in 1.3M | 169 | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | Passon | 1 |
| FI Finland | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Passon | 1 |
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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Passon is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lld, first-person plural present indicative of passer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, pasture
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)
- Stacie Passonb. 1969USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Silvia Passonb. 1985ITItalian basketball player
- Felicity Passonb. 1999SCswimmer
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 2000 | 2000 | 479 | #42,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 415 | #53,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 406 | #51,281 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 305 | #6,712 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 169 | #42,150 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 108 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 108 | #28,174 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 105 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 105 | #28,414 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Passon mean, and where does it come from?
- Field, former ballpark, Philadelphia, Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Passon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 992 people named Passon in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled passon.
- Where is Passon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Passon is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Passon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 406 people named Passon in 2010, about 1 in 819 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/passonThe same 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), 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, “Passon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.