Penar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to punish

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pɛnɑː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 33K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 2.1M
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.6M

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 Penar 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.

Poland (measured from records)

1,152 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PenarLatin(measured from records)
ПенарCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Пенар in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.

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)

to punish

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Penar 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 Penar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,1521 in 33K580Penar46
US United States≈160 est.≈1 in 2.1M151Penar6
UA Ukraine≈53 est.≈1 in 828K—Пенар10
RU Russia≈29 est.≈1 in 4.8M—Пенар35
GB United Kingdom≈25 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Penar7

1,152 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)

Penar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Peñar, Pénar, Penär, Penaer

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Peñar

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States

    Also written Penãr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Peñar

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Peñar

22 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)

Penar 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 Portuguese, to be in pain

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

  • In Romanian, pencil case

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

  • In Romanian, PENÁR, penare, s. n. Cutioară paralelipipedică în care școlarii își țin creioanele, penițele, gumele etc.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Penar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026580—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—580#5,474
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026572—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—572#5,661
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000151#108,734
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Penar mean, and where does it come from?
to punish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Penar?
A machine transcription gives /pɛnɑː/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Penar have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Penar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled penar.
Where is Penar most common?
Penar is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Penar?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,152 people named Penar in 2026, about 1 in 33 thousand 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, “Penar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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