Blat

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 91K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 103K
  • BEBelgium1 in 434K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

487 people

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

counter, countertop, tabletop, top (top surface area of a piece of furniture)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Blat is read(measured from records)

Blat is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish34%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Blat in Spanish.

  • French30%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Blat in French.

  • English17%

    To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Catalan5.9%

    wheat

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Blat 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 Blat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain4871 in 103K487Blat18
PL Poland4231 in 91K213——
BR Brazil1321 in 1.6M132—1
AR Argentina671 in 679K67——
BE Belgium271 in 434K27—2
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—2

487 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)

Blat is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Блат

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Блат

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Blaṭ

  • Hebrew surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Poland, Romania

    Also written בלט, בלאט, Balat, Belt, באלט

34 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)

Blat is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, counter, countertop, tabletop, top (top surface area of a piece of furniture)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In frp, alternative form of blât (“wheat”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Maltese, rock (material, a mass or surface of it)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, pale, livid, ghastly

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Alberto Blat, b. 1870Ismael Blat Monzó, b. 1901Francisco Blat Beltrán, b. 1904Nakhman Blat, b. 1907José Blat Gimeno, b. 1914Ricardo Blat, b. 1950Julio César Martínez Blat, b. 1957Caio Blat, b. 1980Roman Blat, b. 1984Gerard Blat, b. 1997

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 Blat,Dear Blat, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Blat,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Blat
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—487#8,181
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—487#8,168
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026213—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—213#15,191
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026210—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—210#15,664
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—132#51,233
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—67—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200827#39,650
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838

Reference works 3

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

Where does the name Blat come from?
counter, countertop, tabletop, top (top surface area of a piece of furniture) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Blat?
A machine transcription gives /blat/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Blat mean?
In English, To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat.
In which country does Blat have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 487 people named Blat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blat.
Where is Blat most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Blat is densest in Poland — about 1 in 91 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Blat?
In Spain, the national register counted 487 people named Blat, about 1 in 103 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, “Blat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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