Bannu
loc · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bannu is a name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- PKPakistan1 in 531◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 2M
- INIndia1 in 30M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 100K ●
- Sources
- 46 ●
in 5 countries
3.7K records
Official registry-verified
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Banun in MY Malaysia.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu87K87%
- Hindi1541%
- Arabic381%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 86,677 | 87% |
| Hindi | 154 | 1% |
| Arabic | 38 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bannu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Pakistānā, Haiberpahtunhvas provincē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 2 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 3 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 10 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 13 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 14 |
| 1972 | 25 |
| 1973 | 36 |
| 1974 | 49 |
| 1975 | 40 |
| 1976 | 56 |
| 1977 | 69 |
| 1978 | 98 |
| 1979 | 79 |
| 1980 | 81 |
| 1981 | 102 |
| 1982 | 107 |
| 1983 | 156 |
| 1984 | 151 |
| 1985 | 173 |
| 1986 | 150 |
| 1987 | 124 |
| 1988 | 113 |
| 1989 | 91 |
| 1990 | 86 |
| 1991 | 85 |
| 1992 | 56 |
| 1993 | 59 |
| 1994 | 38 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 20 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 78 years between 1921–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bannu?
- Our records include 99,738 bearers of Bannu across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Bannu have the most bearers?
- Bannu is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled bannu.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bannu”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.