Ph
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ph is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: initialism of Pakatan Harapan (“Alliance of Hope”).
- USUnited States≈1 in 417K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 195K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 243K
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)
≈800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
initialism of Pakatan Harapan (“Alliance of Hope”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ph 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 417K | listed | Ph | 146 |
| BR Brazil | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 390K | 37 | — | 2 |
| FR France | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Ph | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Ph | 48 |
| DE Germany | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Ph | 53 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 11 | Ph | 29 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Ph 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 Lao, v. extend, spread out. li phe, extend, spread; worsen fas the plague). ; - un v. spread the wings. — gon uw worsen (as the plague). 1
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In Finnish, abbreviation of pesuhuone (“shower room, bathroom”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Measure of the acidity (low pH) or basicity (high pH) of an aqueous solution, equal to the negative logarithm of the concentration of hydronium ions in molars.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, The twenty-first letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ffi and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by P and followed by R.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rom, The twenty-first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ph mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of Pakatan Harapan (“Alliance of Hope”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ph have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 797 people named Ph in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ph.
- How common is the name Ph?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 18 people named Ph, about 1 in 960 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ph”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.