Pas
loc · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pas is a name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: subst. PAS subst. 1. Pas Ion, scriitor.
- CACanada1 in 57K◐
- USUnited States1 in 753K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈122K ●
- Sources
- 153 ●
- 1 in 1.8K ◐
across 16 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Paes in BR Brazil, US United States, NL Netherlands and 10 more, Pâs in DZ Algeria and Paş in AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 117,884△ | 113 rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 118K | Paes | 6 |
| CA Canada | 3,582 | 266 rec. | — | — | Pas | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,742 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 9.9K | 1.7K | Paes | 76 |
| PL Poland | 944△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 41K | 944 | Paes | 2 |
| US United States | 442 | 6.4K rec. | 1 in 753K | 475 | Paes | 153 |
| DE Germany | 361 | 1K rec. | — | — | Paes | 58 |
| AU Australia | 359 | 623 rec. | — | — | Paes | 46 |
| BE Belgium | 333 | 201 rec. | 1 in 35K | 333 | Paes | 25 |
| AR Argentina | 333 | 0 rec. | 1 in 137K | 333 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | 259 | 529 rec. | — | — | Paes | 40 |
| IN India | 216 | 154 rec. | 1 in 6.1M | 216 | Paes | 20 |
| PH Philippines | 214 | 321 rec. | — | — | Paes | 10 |
Roughly 118K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi7.2K4%
- French6.3K4%
- English3.7K2%
- Spanish6651%
- Malay2471%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 7,171 | 4% |
| French | 6,267 | 4% |
| English | 3,672 | 2% |
| Spanish | 665 | 1% |
| Malay | 247 | 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●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 9 |
| 1901 | 19 |
| 1911 | 8 |
| 1921 | 25 |
| 1931 | 23 |
| 1941 | 15 |
| 1951 | 23 |
| 1961 | 24 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1991 | 13 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 26 sources across 17 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 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 442 | #47,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 378 | #58,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 374 | #52,174 |
| 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 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 212 | #192 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pas?
- We estimate roughly 122 thousand people bear Pas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pas have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 118 thousand people bear Pas in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled paes.
- Where is Pas most common?
- Pas is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Pas mean?
- Recorded meaning: subst. PAS subst. 1. Pas Ion, scriitor.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pas”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.