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Around the world, ชาโต (Chato , Chateau , ชาโต ) is quite a rare epicene forename. The forename ชาโต is habitual in Guatemala, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Iraq, where it is a rare male name, and Uruguay. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Pakistan, India, and Guatemala. More frequently, ชาโต is the last name as well as the forename.
ชาโต is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Chato , the fictional character from The Littlest Outlaw and Chato , the operatic character in the opera La púrpura de la rosa by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco; a peasant.