Patiño

surname · Latin script

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

/patiɲo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Patiño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hispanicization of Portuguese Patinho, from patinho.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 852(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 1K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.6K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈58,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
336 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 852 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PatiñoLatin(measured from records)
ПатиньоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Patino 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)

Hispanicization of Portuguese Patinho, from patinho

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Patiño 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 Patiño is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#111≈58,000 est.≈1 in 85249Patiño135
US United States—21,1131 in 16K21KPatino336
VE Venezuela#283≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Patiño35
EC Ecuador#17516,7421 in 1K17KPatiño44
ES Spain#65310,5021 in 4.8K11KPatiño110
PY Paraguay#215≈2,900 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Patiño18
UY Uruguay—1,2211 in 2.8K1.2K—24

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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Patiño is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Patińo, Patin̋o, Patin-O, Patino, Patíño

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Patino, Патино, Patïñö

40 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000José Patiño, b. 1666Simón Isidoro Patiño, b. 1860Antenor Patiño, b. 1896Ricardo Patiño, b. 1955David Patiño, b. 1967María Patiño, b. 1971Justine Pasek, b. 1979Lois Patiño, b. 1983Yulián Anchico, b. 1984

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Patiño,Dear Patiño, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Patiño,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Patiño
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202417K#258
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—17K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#518
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11K#518
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995334—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009299—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2001297—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2007292—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2006288—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998285—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2003281—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1994281—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Patiño mean, and where does it come from?
Hispanicization of Portuguese Patinho, from patinho Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Patiño?
A machine transcription gives /patiɲo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Patiño have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Patiño in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patiño.
How common is the name Patiño?
In the United States, the national register counted 21,113 people named Patiño in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Patiño compared with other names?
In Colombia, Patiño is the 111th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Patiño” — the 111th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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