Pâ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pâ is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 526as Paz
- BRBrazil1 in 1Kas Paz
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 Pâ 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #170 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
1,119,711 named Pal
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pal in IN India, AR Argentina, BD Bangladesh and 1 more and Pa in US United States, BR Brazil.
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)四 川 凉山 白 莱 家 支 , 见 《 四 川 贵州 菊 族 社会 历史 调查 》(751) 。 mitian
Cited for this meaning 5
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- YorùbáName Dictionary
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pâ 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 | #28 | 1,119,711as Pal | 1 in 1.2K | 1.1M | Pal | 309 |
| BR Brazil | — | 206,498as Paz | 1 in 1K | 206K | Pa | 46 |
| AR Argentina | — | 86,405as Paz | 1 in 526 | 86K | Pal | 48 |
| BD Bangladesh | #147 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Pal | 63 |
| US United States | — | 25,574as Paz | 1 in 13K | 27K | Pa | 293 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,882as Paz | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | — | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 9,033as Paz | 1 in 375 | 9K | — | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Pal | 115 |
1,119,711 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Pâ 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 scn, contraction of pi la (“for the”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nfl, to shoot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rgn, bread
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Pâ a male or female name?
- Pâ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Pâ have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Pal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pâ?
- In India, the national register counted 1,119,711 people named Pal, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Pâ compared with other names?
- In India, Pâ is the 28th most common surname of 1,492,515 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/p%C3%A2The 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, “Pâ” — the 28th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.