Pindar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pindar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from OE (ge)pyndan 'impound'; occupational term for a manor officer who impounded stray beasts; first attested Richard le pynder 1219 AssY.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 38K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 80K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
from OE (ge)pyndan 'impound'; occupational term for a manor officer who impounded stray beasts; first attested Richard le pynder 1219 AssY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pindar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Pindar | 19 |
| GH Ghana | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Pindar | 1 |
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 241 | Pindar | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 315K | 267 | Pindar | 84 |
| CA Canada | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 737K | — | Pindar | 31 |
| GY Guyana | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | Pindar | 3 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Pindar | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Pindar 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 English, An Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (ca. 522–443 BC).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Greek lyric poet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
ИУС É imagination; thought;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- John S. Pindarb. 1835USAmerican politician (1835-1907)
- Susan PindarAmerican poet
- Izah Pindar PaulNGLecturer at Ahmadu Bello University
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 267 | #17,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 241 | #74,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 20 | #605 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Pindar mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE (ge)pyndan 'impound'; occupational term for a manor officer who impounded stray beasts; first attested Richard le pynder 1219 AssY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Pindar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Pindar in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pindar.
- Where is Pindar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pindar is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pindar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 227 people named Pindar in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million 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, “Pindar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.