Paleta

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: trowel, small shovel

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/paleta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Paleta is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PaletaLatin(measured from records)
ПалетаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

palette (a thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Paleta is read(measured from records)

Paleta is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish76%

    trowel, small shovel

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese7.3%

    palette (thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Czech6.4%

    palette (a thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English5.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Paleta in English.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Paleta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Paleta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
BR Brazil—499—
PL Poland—139—
CZ Czechia—64—
AR Argentina—34—
MX Mexico—13—

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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)

Paleta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, palette (board)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, diminutive of pala (“shovel”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, present passive indicative connegative of palaa

    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)

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Paleta,Dear Mr Paleta, (English)
InformalHola Paleta,Hi Paleta, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Paleta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—499#17,123
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026139—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—139#22,939
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026126—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—126#24,454
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—64#24,329
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—64#9,511
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—34—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—13#5,221

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Paleta come from?
palette (a thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Paleta?
A machine transcription gives /paleta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Paleta mean?
In Spanish, trowel, small shovel
In which country does Paleta have the most bearers?
Paleta is most frequently recorded in Brazil.

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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, “Paleta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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