Punca
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Punca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 4.3M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3M (inferred from the name graph)
49 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Punca 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.
49 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Punca is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of punc
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, source
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Velējamā vāle
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Zieda drīksna
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 49 | #106,268 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Punca have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 49 people named Punca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled punca.
- Where is Punca most common?
- Punca is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Punca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 49 people named Punca, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Punca?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puncaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Punca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.