Punam

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Punam is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 1K◐
  • THThailand1 in 82K
  • USUnited States1 in 123K

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

≈3.0K ●

across 7 countries

#827 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
150 ●

738K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 21K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

PunamLatin · Hindi●3M records
ปูนิ่มThai · Thai●39 records
פונאםHebrew · Hebrew●1 records

Locally spelled Panmee in TH Thailand and Poonam in NL Netherlands.

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Punam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#853,169,761731K rec.—147Punam150
US United States—2,7033.4K rec.1 in 123K2.7KPunam140
TH Thailand—1,406736 rec.—#367,823Panmee39
GB United Kingdom—864441 rec.—3Punam53
AU Australia—337325 rec.——Punam34
CA Canada—184172 rec.——Punam27
SA Saudi Arabia—15124 rec.——Punam7
NP Nepal—138409 rec.—2Punam38
MY Malaysia—13590 rec.——Punam5
BD Bangladesh—112117 rec.——Punam13
AE United Arab Emirates—10376 rec.——Punam15
JP Japan—9262 rec.——Punam17

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

Languages●

  • Hindi3M95%
  • Bangla31K1%
  • Indonesian28K1%
  • Khmer17K1%
  • 14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi3,040,66695%
Bangla31,4381%
Indonesian27,5161%
Khmer17,4261%
13,7971%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name14K records spelled Punam2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Pūnam

  • Russian given name780 records spelled Punam20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Poonam, Пунам, Поонам

  • Georgian given name32 records spelled Punam2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Პუნამ

17 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●

Punam is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of punar

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

  • In Portuguese, inflection of punir:

    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●

020K40K60K19001920194019601980200054K · 1992

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Punam in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1898–2017
Yearrecords
18981
189935
19006
19012
19031
19086
19122
19132
19141
19153
191614
191713
191834
191944
192077
192152
1922104
1923291
1924100
192569
192620
192735
192820
192955
193032
193125
193261
193346
193466
193564
193675
193794
193880
1939104
1940100
1941108
1942183
1943118
1944208
1945234
1946251
1947315
1948218
1949276
1950372
1951458
1952603
1953546
1954776
1955932
19561,044
19571,323
19581,597
19592,185
19602,268
19612,567
19624,392
19633,837
19645,471
19655,496
19666,668
19678,177
19688,267
19699,136
197011,327
197111,338
197215,563
197313,872
197416,132
197517,699
197620,019
197723,336
197824,548
197925,717
198019,531
198133,158
198238,285
198342,561
198442,820
198545,632
198641,158
198749,333
198842,428
198946,071
199045,744
199151,006
199254,442
199353,398
199443,887
199536,067
199624,160
199723,372
199811,982
1999969
200039
200124
200216
20033
20041
20051
20061
200733
20084,950
20094
20104,801
201179
2012537
2013535
20147,350
20153,037
20169
20177

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 112 years between 1898–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

198019902000Punam Reddy, b. 1987Punam Raut, b. 1989Punam Gurung, b. 1992Punam Patel, b. 1993Punam Jargha Magar, b. 1993Punam Yadav, b. 1995Punam Barla, b. 1995

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 20 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Punam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199254K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199353K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199151K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198749K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198946K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199046K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198546K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199444K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198443K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198343K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198842K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198641K—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Punam?
We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Punam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Punam have the most bearers?
Punam is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled punam.
How common is Punam compared with other names?
In India, Punam is the 85th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Punam a male or female name?
Punam 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.
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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, “Punam” — the 85th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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