Pitao

surname · Latin script

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

Pitao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 580K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3M

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pitao 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 Pitao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,700 est.≈1 in 63K—Pitao23
BR Brazil3651 in 580K365Pitao31
US United States≈17 est.≈1 in 19M—Pitao13
PT Portugal≈8 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Pitao5

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). 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)

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

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Indonesia, Thailand

    Languages: English, Swahili, Indonesian

    Also written Pitão

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Pitão

25 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)

Pitao 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 Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular active past participle of pitati

    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 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Pitao
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—365#22,445

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Pitao have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Pitao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pitao.
How common is the name Pitao?
In Brazil, the national register counted 365 people named Pitao, about 1 in 580 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, “Pitao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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