Paet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Khmer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 894as Pat(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.5Kas Pat
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.5Kas Pat
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 Paet 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 534 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 894 (inferred from the name graph)
40,768 named Pat, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est., as Pat
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pat in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
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)
initialism of puesto de adelantamiento y estacionamiento de trenes (literally “passing loop and siding facility”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Paet is read(measured from records)
Paet is one spelling over 2 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.
- English64%
A surname from Khmer.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
initialism of puesto de adelantamiento y estacionamiento de trenes (literally “passing loop and siding facility”)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Paet 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 | #410 | 40,768as Pat | 1 in 8.2K | 24K | Pat | 534 |
| CA Canada | #252 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Pat | 246 |
| GB United Kingdom | #476 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 131 | Pat | 271 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Pat | 48 |
| IT Italy | #862 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Pat | 52 |
| AU Australia | #489 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 1 | Pat | 191 |
| IE Ireland | #124 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 894 | — | Pat | 127 |
| NZ New Zealand | #315 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Pat | 99 |
40,768 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Paet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ivv, hole-boring tool which was used a long time ago
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Iloko, chisel
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)
- Urmas Paetb. 1974EEEstonian politician (born 1974)
- Tiina Paetb. 1974EEEstonian linguist (born 1974)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 303 | #65,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 299 | #70,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225 | #78,838 |
| 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
- Where does the name Paet come from?
- initialism of puesto de adelantamiento y estacionamiento de trenes (literally “passing loop and siding facility”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Paet mean?
- In English, A surname from Khmer.
- In which country does Paet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Pat, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,768 people named Pat in 2020, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Paet compared with other names?
- In the United States, Paet is the 410th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paet?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paetThe 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, “Paet” — the 410th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.