Punci
surname · Latin script
Punci is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 36Kas Punchi(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646Kas Pinca
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1Mas Pinca
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 Punci itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 named Punchi, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est., as Punchi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Punchi in LK Sri Lanka, PK Pakistan and Pancha in IN India.
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)Punci 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #103 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Punchi | 25 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Punchi | 3 |
| IN India | — | 209as Pancha | 1 in 6.3M | 209 | Pancha | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 59as Pinca | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 40as Pinca | 1 in 1.1M | 40 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 29as Pinca | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 13as Pinca | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Punci 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 Hungarian, pussy (female genitalia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, punch (drink)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vkl, banana
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Romanian, PUNCI2, punciuri, s. n. Aptitudinea unui boxer de a executa lovituri puternice, decisive; lovitură puternică, decisivă aplicată adversarului de un boxer.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Romanian, PUNCI1, punciuri, s. n. Băutură făcută dintr-un amestec de rom sau alte băuturi alcoolice cu zahăr, lămâie, portocale etc. și diverse mirodenii.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Punci have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 602 people named Punchi in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Punci?
- In India, the national register counted 209 people named Pancha, about 1 in 6.3 million residents.
- How common is Punci compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Punci is the 103rd most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Punci?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/punciThe 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, “Punci” — the 103rd most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.