Patara
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pætɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Patara is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 73Kas ภูธร(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 166Mas Phathon
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Patara 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 named ภูธร, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as ภูธร
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ภูธร in TH Thailand and Phoothorn in US United States.
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)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 73K | #461,526 | ภูธร | 72 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 166M | — | Phoothorn | 32 |
| IN India | — | — | 334 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 153 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 39 | — | 6 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Patara 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.
with a skin; a ray of sunlight.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Latin, a maritime city of Lycia, celebrated for its temple of Apollo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Patara (ancient city in Lycia)
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)
- Pātara Te TuhiNZWaikato leader, newspaper editor, warrior, secretary to the Māori King
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 383 | #8,761 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 334 | #12,374 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 153 | #45,615 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 39 | #59,263 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #1,816 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
Reference works 1
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 Patara mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Patara?
- A machine transcription gives /pætɑɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Patara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 947 people named ภูธร in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Patara?
- Mondonomo estimates about 950 people in Thailand have ภูธร as their first given name, about 1 in 73 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pataraThe 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, “Patara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.