Purday
surname · Latin script
Meaning: an oath name, from French pour Dieu; first attested Gilbert Purdeu 1227 AssBeds
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɚdeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Purday is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- ZASouth Africa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
an oath name, from French pour Dieu; first attested Gilbert Purdeu 1227 AssBeds
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 93 | #34,663 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Purday mean, and where does it come from?
- an oath name, from French pour Dieu; first attested Gilbert Purdeu 1227 AssBeds Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Purday?
- A machine transcription gives /pɚdeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Purday have the most bearers?
- Purday is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/purdayThe 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
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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, “Purday”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.