Pontianus
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pontianus is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 868M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15 ●
- Sources
- 10 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 2 countries
91 records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pontian in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | Pontianus | 1 |
| US United States | 6 | 7 rec. | — | — | Pontian | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| VA Vatican City | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Roughly 14 people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 1.2M). 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●
- Indonesian10957%
- English2413%
- Swahili1910%
- Western Frisian147%
- Dutch126%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 109 | 57% |
| English | 24 | 13% |
| Swahili | 19 | 10% |
| Western Frisian | 14 | 7% |
| Dutch | 12 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 14 | #14,610 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 1 | #67 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pontianus?
- We estimate roughly 15 people bear Pontianus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pontianus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 people bear Pontianus in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled pontianus.
- Where is Pontianus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pontianus is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- Is Pontianus a male or female name?
- Pontianus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pontianusThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Pontianus”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.