Räto

given name · Latin script

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Räto is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • ARArgentina1 in 218K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 529K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Räto itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

400 people

Record sources
73 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 170K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rato in ES Spain, IN India, ZA South Africa and Raeto in CH Switzerland.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Räto 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 Räto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil4001 in 529K400—2
ES Spain2941 in 170K294Rato18
AR Argentina2091 in 218K209——
IN India1471 in 9M147Rato11
ZA South Africa≈69 est.≈1 in 822K—Rato6
CH Switzerland321 in 263K32Raeto11

400 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rato

  • Estonian name4 spellings in the group

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Rato

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines

    Also written Rato

1 further group 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)
  • Räto Tschuppb. 1929CH(1929--2002) Swiss conductor
  • Räto Melcherb. 1933CHchairman of the FIS Alpine Committee 1979 to 1994 (1933-2014)

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)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

Is Räto a male or female name?
Räto 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 Räto have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 400 people named Räto, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Räto most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Räto is densest in Spain — about 1 in 170 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Räto?
In Brazil, the national register counted 400 people named Räto, about 1 in 529 thousand 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, “Räto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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