Punia
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəɲiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Punia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 4.6M(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 226K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 601K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 226K (inferred from the name graph)
290 people
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Punia 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 | 290 | 1 in 4.6M | 290 | Punia | 120 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Punia | 41 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 198 | Punia | 103 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 605K | 166 | Punia | 45 |
| IT Italy | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Punia | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Punia | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
290 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Punia 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 Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of punir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, partitive plural of puna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, alms, charity
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pavitra Puniab. 1986INIndian actress
- Savita Puniab. 1990INIndian field hockey player
- Deepak Puniab. 1993INIndian cricketer
- Ravi Kumar Puniab. 1993INIndian Football Player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 290 | #13,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 198 | #98,131 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 172 | #2,560 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 166 | #24,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 33 | #2,694 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #5,107 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #8,718 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Punia?
- A machine transcription gives /pəɲiə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Punia have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 290 people named Punia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled punia.
- How common is the name Punia?
- In India, the national register counted 290 people named Punia, about 1 in 4.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puniaThe 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, “Punia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.