Paat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: boat, ship
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pææt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- RERéunion≈1 in 5.9K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
boat, ship
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Paat | 37 |
| US United States | — | 197 | 1 in 1.7M | 228 | Paat | 101 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Paat | 15 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Paat | 1 |
| EE Estonia | #894 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 108 | Paat | 18 |
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; the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Paat 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 Khmer, to scold (many people) audaciously. Lpncirnifi (= rnnDXncpnaTna) to scold (many people) without reason. qin
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Khmer, to smooth (over), to press smooth, to spread (over\ to llatten
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Finnish, second-person singular present indicative of panna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In puw, swamp
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In myn-pro, back
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)
- Aadu Paatb. 1933EEEstonian physicist (1933-2013)
- Rainer Paatb. 1978EEEstonian programmer (born 1978)
- Frans Paatproduction designer
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 228 | #87,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 197 | #93,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 108 | #675 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 106 | #740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Paat mean, and where does it come from?
- boat, ship Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paat?
- A machine transcription gives /pææt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Paat in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 197 people named Paat in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Paat compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Paat is the 894th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paatThe 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, “Paat” — the 894th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.