Passa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: dried fruit (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Passa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Passa is also written פאשא in Hebrew and Πασά in Greek.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 14Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 110Mfew records
- SISlovenia1 in 50Kas Paša
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 Passa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 named Pasa, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Passa in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew and Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pasa in IN India, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 more and Paşa in DE Germany, AT Austria, AZ Azerbaijan.
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)dried fruit
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Passa 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 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 403K | 812 | Pasa | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 212K | listed | Pasa | 65 |
| US United States | 1,027as Pasha | 1 in 324K | 1.7K | Pasa | 107 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 139 | Paşa | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Paşa | 41 |
| AT Austria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 4 | Paşa | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 101as Pasha | 1 in 101K | 101 | — | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 42as Paša | 1 in 50K | 42 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 26as Pasha | 1 in 118K | 26 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 14M | 2.2K | Pasa | 62 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)Passa 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 Italian, do verbo latino medievo passare; ligado ao transportador ou guia de passagens
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In pi, second-person singular imperative active of passati (“to see”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to fit (be the right size and shape, also of clothing), to be convenient, to be appropriate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of passer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, streak (continuous series of events)
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)- Frank Passab. 1916American luthier
- Chiara Passab. 1973ITItalian artist
- Enzo Passab. 1975ITItalian hellenist (born 1975)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Passa mean, and where does it come from?
- dried fruit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Passa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Pasa in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, United States, Azerbaijan and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Passa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,027 people named Pasha in 2020, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Passa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/passaThe 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, “Passa” — ranked 6430th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.