Pendo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Love
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɛndɔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pendo is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Tanzania.
- TZTanzania
- LVLatvia
- SESweden
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Love
Sources 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pendo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | 1 | Pendo | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | Pendo | 8 |
| KE Kenya | — | listed | Pendo | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | Pendo | 4 |
| US United States | — | 112 | Pendo | 17 |
| LV Latvia | — | — | Pendo | 3 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Pendo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of pendere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first-person singular present indicative of pender
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, number; counting; value
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Latin, to weigh, weigh out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, nombre; calcul; prix
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #12 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- Is Pendo a male or female name?
- Pendo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Pendo mean, and where does it come from?
- Love Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- How do you pronounce Pendo?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛndɔ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Pendo have the most bearers?
- Pendo is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled pendo.
What do you want to know about Pendo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pendoThe 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, “Pendo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.