Pennam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pennam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1Mas Ponnam(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 793Kas Ponnam
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.7Mas Ponnam
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 Pennam 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)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 793K (inferred from the name graph)
1,295 named Ponnam
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est., as Ponnam
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ponnam in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pennam 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 | 1,295as Ponnam | 1 in 1M | 1.3K | Ponnam | 88 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Ponnam | 1 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Ponnam | 92 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | — | Ponnam | 20 |
| PL Poland | 9as Ponnam | 1 in 4.3M | 9 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Ponnam | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Ponnam | 2 |
1,295 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; 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)
Pennam 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 Latin, accusative singular of penna
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 348 | #9,437 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 165 | #20,209 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pennam have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Ponnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pennam?
- In India, the national register counted 1,295 people named Ponnam, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Pennam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pennamThe 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, “Pennam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.