Opat

surname · Latin script

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

Opat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Czech, recorded as abbot.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 44K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 83K
  • PLPoland1 in 178K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

286 people, 2010

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

abbot, prior (high-ranking member of a monastery)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Opat is read(measured from records)

Opat is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English57%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Opat in English.

  • Czech14%

    abbot

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

  • Polish14%

    abbot, prior (high-ranking member of a monastery)

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

  • Swahili13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Opat in Swahili.

  • Croatian9.3%

    viši šef u redovničkoj hijerarhiji; prezime

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

    redovnički termin; naslov za crkvenog poglavara

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • Indonesian6.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Opat in Indonesian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Opat counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Opat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2861 in 1.2M286Opat4
PL Poland2151 in 178K118Opat12
CZ Czechia1291 in 83K129Opat17
HR Croatia961 in 44K96——
AR Argentina121 in 3.8M12——
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

286 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Opat is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name68 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, United Kingdom, Israel

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โอภาส, Opas, โอภาศ, Opart, โอภาษี

28 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(measured from records)

Opat 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 bbc, four

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

  • In Dutch, singular dependent-clause past indicative of opeten

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 3

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Opat come from?
abbot, prior (high-ranking member of a monastery) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Opat mean?
In Czech, abbot
In which country does Opat have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 286 people named Opat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled opat.
Where is Opat most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Opat is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Opat?
In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Opat in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Opat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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