Pâte
loc · Latin script
Pâte is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”).
- SGSingapore≈1 in 9.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
29,327 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pate in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IN India and 3 more.
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)- Middle Englishpate(measured from records)
- Latinpatina“pan“pan, dish”(measured from records)
From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pâte 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 29,327 | 1 in 11K | 29K | Pate | 447 |
| IN India | — | 8,805 | 1 in 151K | 8.8K | Pate | 55 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1.3K | Pate | 147 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pate | 99 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pate | 104 |
| SG Singapore | #899 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Pate | 4 |
29,327 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Pâte 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 French, paste
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pâte mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Pâte have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Pâte, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pate.
- How common is the name Pâte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,327 people named Pâte in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Pâte compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Pâte is the 899th most common surname of 78,292 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, “Pâte” — the 899th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.