Padua
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Padua (the capital city of Padua, Italy)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɐdwɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Padua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.5K
- USUnited States1 in 133K
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
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Padua (the capital city of Padua, Italy)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Padua is read(measured from records)
Padua is one spelling over 3 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.
- Portuguese39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Padua in Portuguese.
- English35%
city, Italy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish19%
Padua (the capital city of Padua, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Padua 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 | #140 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Padua | 107 |
| BR Brazil | #324 | 32,676 | 1 in 6.5K | 33K | Padua | 135 |
| US United States | — | 2,505 | 1 in 133K | 2.7K | Padua | 264 |
| CU Cuba | #402 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Padua | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 87K | listed | Padua | 19 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #581 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Padua | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 148 | 1 in 23K | 148 | — | 11 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Padua is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, the 143rd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring at 44,210 individuals
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)
- Suzana Paduab. 1950BRBrazilian researcher, in the field of conservation and environmental education
- Noreen Paduab. 1953INbadminton player
- Naureen Paduab. 1955INbadminton player
- Venera Paduab. 1957ITItalian politician
- Donatella Paduab. 1964USItalian-American sociologist (1964-)
- Irene Paduab. 1989ITItalian volleyball player
- Saúl Antonio Paduab. 1992COColombian athlete
- Marilu PaduaMXSecretary of Gender and Human Rights, National Union of Domestic Workers
- David A. PaduaUSVenezuelan American computer science professor and parallel computing expert
- André PaduaBRBrazilian spongiologist
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 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33K | #570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,230 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,702 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 148 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| 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 Padua mean, and where does it come from?
- Padua (the capital city of Padua, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Padua?
- A machine transcription gives /pɐdwɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Padua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Padua in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled padua.
- How common is the name Padua?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32,676 people named Padua, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Padua compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Padua is the 140th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Padua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paduaThe 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, “Padua” — the 140th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.