Pas
loc · Latin script
Meaning: subst. PAS subst. 1. Pas Ion, scriitor
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pas is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 14K
- PLPoland1 in 20K
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 Pas 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
117,884 named Paes
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Paes in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, PL Poland and 1 more and Pàṧ in DZ Algeria.
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)
subst. PAS subst. 1. Pas Ion, scriitor. 2. Pa'sul, Vasile, olt (AO XVII 358) ; Paseni s. (T-Rom 292). 3. *Pasau : Pasetild mold. act. Pasuld, Tr. ban (Iugosl). 4. -ic, Pasic, Cozma (17 A II 286).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pas 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.
117,884 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pas 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 English, town. Manitoba
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Dutch, only
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Malay, acronym of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (“Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party”), an Islamist and conservative political party in Malaysia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, not (negates the meaning of a verb)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, alternative form of pás (“waist”)
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)
- Jean-Baptiste Pas de Beaulieub. 1787FRFrench politician (1787-1858)
- Paul Pasb. 1925BEBelgian Catholic priest
- Louis Pasb. 1931BEBelgian pianist and music pedagogue
- Johan Pasb. 1963BEPas, Johan, 1963-
- Michaël Pasb. 1966BEBelgian actor (born 1966)
- Johanna Pasb. 1969BEpoet and manager of bookstore Kartonnen Dozen
- Niek Pasb. 1970NLDutch historian
- Barbara Pasb. 1981BEFlemish politician
- Alexandra Pasb. 1992HUfootball 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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.8K | #2,790 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.7K | #776 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 333 | #4,886 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 328 | #5,091 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 233 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 233 | #13,984 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 217 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 217 | #15,244 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 23 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pas mean?
- Recorded meaning: subst. PAS subst. 1. Pas Ion, scriitor.
- In which country does Pas have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Paes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pas is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 9.9 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,884 people named Pas in 2026, about 1 in 20 thousand 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/pasThe 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, “Pas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.