Pať

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Pať is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 42K
  • SESweden1 in 138K

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)

40,768 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PaťLatin(measured from records)
ПътCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pat in US United States, CZ Czechia, ES Spain.

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)

Derivation of Pať: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pať
  1. Middle English*pattenwith loss of medial l(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishplættan“to buffet“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*plat-“to strike“to strike, beat”(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*blod-“to strike“to strike, beat”(measured from records)

From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.

Sources 5

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pať 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 Pať is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—40,7681 in 8.2K24KPat57
SE Sweden—741 in 138K74—2
ES Spain—491 in 1M49Pat2
NL Netherlands—451 in 384K130—2
GY Guyana—181 in 42K18——
CZ Czechia#630———Pat25

40,768 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pať under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pať mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
Is Pať a male or female name?
Pať is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Pať have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Pať, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pat.
Where is Pať most common?
Pať is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pať?
In the United States, the national register counted 40,768 people named Pať in 2020, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
How common is Pať compared with other names?
In Czechia, Pať is the 630th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.

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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, “Pať” — the 630th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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