Blat

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.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Catalan5.9%

  wheat

  as a word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In ang, pale, livid, ghastly

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Alberto Blatb. 1870Italian Dominican theologian and canonist (1870-1943)
• Ismael Blat Monzób. 1901ESSpanish painter
• Francisco Blat Beltránb. 1904entomologist
• Nakhman Blatb. 1907LTLithuanian footballer
• José Blat Gimenob. 1914ESSpanish teacher
• Ricardo Blatb. 1950BRBrazilian actor
• Julio César Martínez Blatb. 1957ESSpanish politician
• Caio Blatb. 1980BRBrazilian actor
• Roman Blatb. 1984USAmerican actor
• Gerard Blatb. 1997ESSpanish basketball player (born 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).

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

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.