Filat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Short form of Feofilakt, from Greek Theophylaktos ‘protected by God’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fiɫæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 612Kas Филат(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 481K
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Filat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 481K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 named Филат, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Филат in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and Філат in UA Ukraine.
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)
- Greek Theophylaktos‘protected(measured from records)
- Greek Thyrsos‘staff(measured from records)
Short form of Feofilakt, from Greek Theophylaktos ‘protected by God’. Firs $ From Greek Thyrsos ‘staff of Dionysos’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filat 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.
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); e-services.md — living population 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)
Filat 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 Russian, de theophylactos, protégé de Dieu.
as a nameRussian Names
Russian: the usual vernacular contracted form of Feofilakt , from the Greek personal name Theophylaktos ‘guarded by God’ (from theos god + phylassein to guard, protect). This was the name of a 9th-century saint, bishop of Nicomedia, venerated in the Orthodox Church. In the Roman Martyrology he is commemorated under the much more common name Theophilus .
as a word
In Russian, Filat Skupoi. 15th Century.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swedish, indefinite neuter singular of filad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, spinning
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)
- Vlad Filatb. 1969MDMoldovan politician
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #151,603 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #176,424 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Filat come from?
- Short form of Feofilakt, from Greek Theophylaktos ‘protected by God’. Firs $ From Greek Thyrsos ‘staff of Dionysos’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Filat?
- A machine transcription gives /fiɫæt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Filat mean?
- Recorded meaning: Short form of Feofilakt, from Greek Theophylaktos ‘protected by God’.
- In which country does Filat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 people named Филат in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Filat most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Filat is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 481 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Filat?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7 people named Filat in 2026, about 1 in 5.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Filat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filatThe 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, “Filat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.