Patnaik
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɐtnəɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Patnaik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Odia ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ (pôṭṭônayôkô).
- USUnited States1 in 624K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 191Kas Pattanayak
- SGSingapore≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Patnaik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)
6,951 named Pattanayak
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pattanayak in IN India, ID Indonesia and Pattanaik in CN China.
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)
Borrowed from Odia ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ (pôṭṭônayôkô).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patnaik 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 6,951as Pattanayak | 1 in 191K | 7K | Pattanayak | 186 |
| CN China | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Pattanaik | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Pattanayak | 1 |
| US United States | 533 | 1 in 624K | 776 | Patnaik | 209 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 413K | 45 | Patnaik | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Patnaik | 24 |
| SG Singapore | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Patnaik | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Patnaik | 2 |
6,951 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Patnaik 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 English, A surname from Odia.
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)
- Ananta Patnaikb. 1914INOdia writer
- Biju Patnaikb. 1916INIndian politician, aviator and businessman (1916–1997)
- Basanta Kumari Patnaikb. 1923INIndian Odia-language writer (1923-2013)
- Janaki Ballav Patnaikb. 1927INpolitician from Odisha, India (1927-2015)
- Debi Prasanna Pattanayakb. 1931INIndian academic
- Jayanti Patnaikb. 1932INIndian politician (1932–2022)
- Bibhuti Pattnaikb. 1937INnot in their usual nameIndian writer
- Naveen Patnaikb. 1946IN14th Chief Minister of Odisha
- Ellora Patnaikb. 1968CACanadian actress and dancer
- Devdutt Pattanaikb. 1970INnot in their usual nameIndian physician; leadership consultant, mythologist and author
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Patnaik?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɐtnəɪk/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Patnaik mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Odia ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ (pôṭṭônayôkô). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Patnaik have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Pattanayak, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Patnaik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 533 people named Patnaik in 2010, about 1 in 624 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patnaikThe 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, “Patnaik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.