Puru
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a king (M); a mountain (M); a son of Caksusa
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Puru is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 232K
- SISlovenia1 in 38Kas Por
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 Puru 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
3,303 named Poor, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Poor in US United States and Prue in BD Bangladesh.
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)
a king (M); a mountain (M); a son of Caksusa
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Puru 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,303as Poor | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Poor | 87 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,059as Pra | 1 in 69K | 3.1K | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | #785 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Prue | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 169as Pra | 1 in 269K | 169 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 159as Pur | 1 in 67K | 159 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 56as Por | 1 in 38K | 56 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 56as Poor | 1 in 98K | 56 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 24 | 1 in 232K | 24 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 19 | — | — |
3,303 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Puru 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 English, A member of an Indo-Aryan tribal alliance or confederation between c. 1700–1400 BCE.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, plug, cork, bung; plug up, stuff up; confine by means of a plug; thrust in, stuff in, cram in; crammed, stuffed; pulp
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Finnish, synonym of pureminen (“biting, chewing”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, frambesia, parangi, pian, yaws: a contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, sore; ulcer; (specifically) sores due to yaws or Framboesia tropica, a tropical disease caused by a spirochaete (Spironema pertenue) and bearing certain likenesses to syphilis
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Puru Chibberb. 1990INIndian television actor
- Hohepa Purub. 2004AUAustralian rugby league 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,698 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 19 | #5,947 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,150 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Puru mean, and where does it come from?
- a king (M); a mountain (M); a son of Caksusa Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- In which country does Puru have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Poor, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Puru?
- In Finland, the national register counted 24 people named Puru, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
- How common is Puru compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Puru is the 785th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puruThe 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, “Puru” — the 785th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.