Puku
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Puku is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 435Kas Paku(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 659Kas Paku
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.3Mas Paku
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Puku 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 435K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 named Paku, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est., as Paku
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Paku in US United States, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Puku 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Paku | 42 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Paku | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Paku | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Paku | 9 |
| US United States | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 19M | listed | Paku | 60 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Paku | 30 |
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.
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)
Puku is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, suit (set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sbb, knot, piece of string with knots used to count the nights after the death of a person
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, A medium-sized antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, swelling, tumor, knob; head of seed, cob of corn, etc.; swell
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hawaiian, gather together, pucker; shrunken, contracted
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bgt, a swelling from a blow; lump, knot, tumor
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Puku have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 405 people named Paku in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Puku?
- Mondonomo estimates about 410 people in Indonesia have Paku as their first given name, about 1 in 659 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Puku?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pukuThe 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, “Puku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.