Pramana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Sanskrit pramāṇa, measure/authority
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pramˈana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pramana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 415K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 544K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Sanskrit pramāṇa, measure/authority
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Pramana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #537 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Pramana | 144 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 544K | — | Pramana | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | — | Pramana | 43 |
| IN India | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 34M | listed | Pramana | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 794K | — | Pramana | 36 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Pramana | 10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Pramana | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
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). 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)
Pramana 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.
Balarama (N); Dattatreya (५); Jina (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In English, means of knowledge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ban, power
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #237,018 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Pramana mean, and where does it come from?
- from Sanskrit pramāṇa, measure/authority Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Pramana?
- A machine transcription gives /pramˈana/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Pramana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Pramana in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pramana.
- How common is the name Pramana?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Pramana in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
- How common is Pramana compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Pramana is the 537th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pramanaThe 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, “Pramana” — the 537th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.