Panya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A twin child
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pænjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Panya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name.
- THThailand≈1 in 1.3Kas ปัญญา(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 282Kas Pan
- LALaos≈1 in 21K
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 Panya 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 named ปัญญา, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
22 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ปัญญา in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia and Pan in CN China, LA Laos.
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 twin child
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Panya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #99 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | #344,542 | ปัญญา | 150 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 83K | listed | ปัญญา | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,181as Pan | 1 in 282K | 18K | Panya | 71 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Pan | 28 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Pan | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 243 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 8as Pan | 1 in 263K | 27 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the id-github-names register; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Panya 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.
Indra (५)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Swahili, Swahili/Kiswahili: 'mouse'; also a Russian nickname for Stephania.
as a nameAfrican Names
Mouse.
as a nameThe African book of names
In German, in Kenia und Tansania vorkommender weibl. Vom., der auf Suaheli »kleine Maus« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, A large earthenware jar.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 128 | #35,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103 | #35,030 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,251 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Panya mean, and where does it come from?
- A twin child Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Panya?
- A machine transcription gives /pænjə/ (IPA) for Thai.
- Is Panya a male or female name?
- Panya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Panya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named ปัญญา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Panya?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19 people named Panya, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.
- How common is Panya compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Panya is the 99th most common given name of 488,147 given names 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/panyaThe 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, “Panya” — the 99th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.