Pango
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cave
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
/paŋɡo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pango is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- GAGabon≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 110Kfew records
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈870 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)cave
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pango 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Pango | 25 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Pango | 11 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Pango | 8 |
| GA Gabon | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 6 | — | — |
| IN India | 44 | 1 in 30M | 44 | Pango | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Pango | 3 |
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; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)Pango 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.
In Latin, to fasten, fix, set, especially drive, sink, force in
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, mourning band round head
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Māori, black (colour/color)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, snub-nosed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbn, to hunt
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)- Pierre-Michel Pangob. 1928CIpriest from Ivory Coast (1928-1993)
- Grover Pango Vildosob. 1947PEPeruvian politician
- Ylli Pangob. 1952ALAlbanian academic
- Cecilia PangoCIIvorian actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 44 | #48,182 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 34 | #2,645 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 27 | #2,242 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 6 | #89 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,168 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Pango mean, and where does it come from?
- cave Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pango?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /paŋɡo/; in Indonesian /paŋo/; in Swahili /paᵑɡo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Pango have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 867 people named Pango in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pango.
- How common is the name Pango?
- In India, the national register counted 44 people named Pango, about 1 in 30 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pangoThe 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, “Pango”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.