Gatus
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡatus/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gatus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Respelling of earlier Gatos, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
162 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Respelling of earlier Gatos, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Gatus is found
(measured from records)Gatus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 162 | 1 in 2.1M | 235 | Gatus | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | — | Gatus | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Gatus | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | — | — | — | Gatus | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | — | — | Gatus | 6 |
162 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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)Gatus 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 hil, hundred
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ch, hundred ([Costenoble 1940](Source#cldf:costenoble1940))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pam, a surname from Kapampangan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsg, a hundred; hundreds
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gatus mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of earlier Gatos, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Gatus?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡatus/; in Swahili /ɠɑtus/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gatus?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 162 people named Gatus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gatus. After it come Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gatus most common?
- Gatus is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gatus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 162 people named Gatus in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gatus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gatusThe 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, “Gatus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.