Puan

given name · Malay · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Puan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Mrs (title for married woman).

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 989◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 91K
  • SGSingapore1 in 133K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

76K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
62 ●

4.3K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

Mrs (title for married woman)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Puan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#4265,7024K rec.——Puan36
ID Indonesia—994163 rec.——Puan62
SG Singapore—8171 rec.——Puan11
PH Philippines—6539 rec.——Puan4
US United States—4350 rec.——Puan19
EG Egypt—67 rec.——Puan3
IN India————6——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Malay41K53%
  • Indonesian26K34%
  • English3.3K4%
  • Chinese8001%
  • Spanish7091%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Malay40,58353%
Indonesian25,70634%
English3,3284%
Chinese8001%
Spanish7091%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Puan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.5K records spelled Puan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Püañ

  • Spanish given name1.2K records spelled Puan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Puân

  • Thai given name958 records spelled Puan15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Thailand, United States, Singapore

    Also written เปื้อน, เปื่อน, เปือน, เปอิน, ปวรีย์

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Puan 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 Indonesian, Mrs, madam, ma'am

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In sit-pro, scratch

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Turkish, point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, lady; short for _perempuan_, in titles

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In mui, milk

    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●

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Puan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#24,518
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5#1,458

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 Puan?
Our records include 75,774 bearers of Puan across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Puan have the most bearers?
Puan is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled puan.
How common is Puan compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Puan is the 42nd most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
Is Puan a male or female name?
Puan is a female 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.
What does the name Puan mean?
Recorded meaning: Mrs (title for married woman)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Puan” — the 42nd most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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