Paladin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A heroic champion, especially a knight
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pælədɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paladin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- HRCroatia1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A heroic champion, especially a knight.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paladin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Paladin | 36 |
| IT Italy | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 155K | listed | Paladin | 9 |
| HR Croatia | 266 | 1 in 16K | 266 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 231 | Paladin | 131 |
| BR Brazil | 183 | 1 in 1.2M | 183 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 39 | 1 in 54K | 39 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Paladin | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)
Paladin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma dialetal set., redução de Paladino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Au départ, le mot désigna un officier du palais (qui dérive de mont Palatin) puis il s’appliqua à un seigneur de la suite de Charlemagne. Évoluant encore, le mot signifia « chevalier errant » dans le style de don Quichotte. Un paladin est, aujourd’hui, un homme brave et chevaleresque. Voir Palais .
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In English, knight; champion
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In Italian, Variante di Paladini
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Russian, Paladin Lukar'evich. 1461.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Giovanni Paladinb. 1896ITItalian teacher and politician (1896-1959)
- Livio Paladinb. 1933ITItalian lawyer, politician (1933–2000)
- Alain Paladinb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Giovanni Paladinb. 1958ITItalian physicist (1958-1996)
- Dan Paladinb. 1979USvideo-game designer
- Uroš Paladinb. 1988SISlovenian handball player
- Soraya Paladinb. 1993ITItalian cyclist
- Asja Paladinb. 1994ITItalian cyclist
- Luigi PaladinITItalian psychologist and library scientist
- Guido PaladinITItalian professor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 266 | #3,079 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 255 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 231 | #86,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194 | #88,825 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 183 | #39,509 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 39 | #9,042 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Paladin mean, and where does it come from?
- A heroic champion, especially a knight. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paladin?
- A machine transcription gives /pælədɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paladin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Paladin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paladin.
- Where is Paladin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paladin is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paladin?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 266 people named Paladin in 2021, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paladinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Paladin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.