Panda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bear species
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Panda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 4.7Kas Pandey
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.6Kas Pandi
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 Panda 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)
- #214 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
284,757 named Pandey
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Panday in PH Philippines, BD Bangladesh, KW Kuwait and 2 more, Pandey in IN India, ID Indonesia and Pandi in SG Singapore.
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)
bear species
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Panda 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 | #35 | 284,757as Pandey | 1 in 4.7K | 285K | Pandey | 316 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Pandey | 59 |
| BD Bangladesh | #478 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Panday | 30 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Panday | 38 |
| VN Vietnam | #299 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Panda | 38 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Panday | 20 |
| SG Singapore | #350 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Pandi | 60 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Panday | 7 |
| GY Guyana | #479 | 220as Panday | 1 in 3.4K | 220 | Panday | 2 |
284,757 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Panda 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.
white; yellow.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of pandō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, giant panda, panda, panda bear (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, panda, giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Laxmi Indira Pandab. 1930INIndian revolutionary (b. 1930, d. 2008)
- Ramesh Chandra Pandab. 1935INIndian politician
- Rajendra Kishore Pandab. 1944INIndian Odia-language poet
- Basanta Kumar Pandab. 1961INpolitician from Odisha, India
- Baijayant Jay Pandab. 1964INIndian politician
- Satchin Pandab. 1971USIndian-American researcher and professor
- Ruchira Pandab. 1975INNorth Indian classical vocalist
- Gayatribala Pandab. 1977INIndian writer
- Rutaparna Pandab. 1999INIndian badminton player
- Swetaparna Pandab. 2005INbadminton 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 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 129K | #161 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5K | #581 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Panda mean, and where does it come from?
- bear species Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Panda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 285 thousand people named Pandey, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Panda?
- In India, the national register counted 284,757 people named Pandey, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Panda compared with other names?
- In India, Panda is the 35th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pandaThe 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, “Panda” — the 35th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.