Patán

surname · Latin script

Meaning: yokel, hick, boor (unsophisticated person)

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

Patán is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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:

Locally spelled Patan in US United States.

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)

yokel, hick, boor (unsophisticated person)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Patán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—listedPatan71
IN India—8.7K—38
PL Poland—230—2
BR Brazil—86—1
NL Netherlands—32—4
ES Spain—21—2

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • a separate name15 spellings in the group

    Also written Патан, Patan, Pattan, Pátan, Pàttâñ

2 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)

Patán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, superessive singular of pata

    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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Patán 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 Patán mean, and where does it come from?
yokel, hick, boor (unsophisticated person) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Patán have the most bearers?
Patán is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled patan.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pat%C3%A1n

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Patán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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