Punsan

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Punsan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: puiser, écluser.

rarermore common
  • THThailand≈1 in 295Kas ปันแสน(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Punsan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈230 named ปันแสน, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 295K (inferred from the name graph)

Thailand, est., as ปันแสน

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PunsanLatin(measured from records)
ปันแสนThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ปันแสน in TH Thailand.

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(measured from records)

puiser, écluser

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Punsan 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.

Where Punsan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand≈230 est.≈1 in 295K#365,525ปันแสน37

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.

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)

Punsan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Breton, puiser, écluser

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Punsan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Punsan mean, and where does it come from?
puiser, écluser Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
In which country does Punsan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 233 people named ปันแสน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Punsan?
Mondonomo estimates about 230 people in Thailand have ปันแสน as their first surname, about 1 in 295 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Punsan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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