Punis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pjunɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Punis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 151K(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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
28 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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)
Punis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 28 | 1 in 151K | 28 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Punis | 7 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Punis | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Punis | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Punis | 3 |
28 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Punis 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 Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of pūniō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person plural present indicative of punir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, past of puni
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vēders; liels vēders
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
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 Punis?
- A machine transcription gives /pjunɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Punis have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 28 people named Punis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Punis most common?
- Punis is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 151 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Punis?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 28 people named Punis in 2021, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Punis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/punisThe 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, “Punis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.