Pataca

surname · Latin script

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

Pataca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as a silver coin worth 320 réis.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 147K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 39K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 41K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Angola (inferred from the name graph)

≈800 people, est.

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a silver coin worth 320 réis

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Pataca is read(measured from records)

Pataca is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • Spanish56%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pataca in Spanish.

  • Portuguese19%

    a silver coin worth 320 réis

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

  • English14%

    The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos.

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

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Pataca 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 Pataca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AO Angola#663≈800 est.≈1 in 41K—Pataca16
PE Peru—≈220 est.≈1 in 147K—Pataca22
PT Portugal—≈120 est.≈1 in 90K—Pataca21
HR Croatia—1091 in 39K113——
PH Philippines—≈73 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Pataca3
NL Netherlands—301 in 576K30Pataca5

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

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

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Patača, Pataća

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Patacä, Patača

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Italy, Philippines

    Also written Patacă

39 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)

Pataca 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 Asturian, potato

    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)

Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

What does the name Pataca mean, and where does it come from?
a silver coin worth 320 réis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Pataca have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 801 people named Pataca in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pataca.
Where is Pataca most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pataca is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Angola holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pataca?
In Croatia, the national register counted 109 people named Pataca in 2021, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
How common is Pataca compared with other names?
In Angola, Pataca is the 663rd most common surname of 23,432 surnames 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, “Pataca” — the 663rd most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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