All over the world, พนักงาน (Staff 
, Clerk , พนักงาน 
) is quite a rare unisex first name. The given name พนักงาน is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa, where it is quite a rare largely girly, but uncommonly boy's name, Ghana, where it is a rare boy's name, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More frequently, พนักงาน is the last name as well as the forename.
พนักงาน is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Clerk of the court , the operatic character in the opera The Trial by Philip Glass; Clerk , the operatic character in the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Staff officer , the operatic character in the opera The Silver Tassie; Clerk , the theatrical character in the play "Mother Courage and Her Children" and Clerk , the character from 2017 film 'The Swap', and in many other works.