Pún
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pún is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound.
- NPNepal1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 52K
- NONorway1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,827 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pun in IN India, US United States.
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)- Middle Englishponnen(measured from records)
- Old Englishpunian“to pound“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*punōną“to break to pieces“to break to pieces, pulverize”(measured from records)
From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.
Cited for this meaning 5
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pún 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.
9,827 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pún mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. Recorded by The African book of names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Pún a male or female name?
- Pún 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 Pún have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Pún, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pún most common?
- Pún is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pún?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 9,827 people named Pún in 2021, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
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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, “Pún”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.