Paterno
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: parental
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɑˈtɛɹnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paterno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 37K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 54K
- ITItaly≈1 in 57K
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
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Paternò in IT Italy.
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)
paternal (relating to fathers)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Paterno is read(measured from records)
Paterno 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.
- English52%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Paterno in English.
- Spanish29%
parental
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.7%
paternal (relating to fathers)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Paterno 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | Paterno | 31 |
| US United States | 1,293 | 1 in 257K | 1.3K | Paterno | 85 |
| BR Brazil | 1,253 | 1 in 169K | 1.3K | Paterno | 69 |
| AR Argentina | 1,213 | 1 in 37K | 1.2K | Paterno | 45 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | listed | Paternò | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | Paterno | 4 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Paterno is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo de localidades chamadas Paterno; de fundus paternus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Dai toponimi Paterno; circa quaranta toponimi in varie parti d'Italia.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Cogn. Padrroi, Patrignarii. Circa quaranta to~iouimi,evidrnti. in varie parti d'Italiii.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of paternus
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)
- Lodovico Paternob. 1533ITItalian poet (16th century)
- Dolores Paternob. 1854PHFilipino composer (1854–1881)
- Pedro Paternob. 1857PHPrime Minister of the Philippines in 1899
- Joe Paternob. 1926USAmerican college football coach (1926-2012)
- George Paternob. 1928USAmerican football coach (1928-2002)
- August Paternob. 1935ATAustrian theologian (1935-2007)
- Bill Paternob. 1955USAmerican basketball player
- Norberto Paternob. 1975ARArgentinian athlete
- Marta PaternoITItalian geneticist
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,512 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,539 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,446 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Paterno come from?
- paternal (relating to fathers) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paterno?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑˈtɛɹnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Paterno mean?
- In Spanish, parental
- In which country does Paterno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Paterno in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paterno.
- Where is Paterno most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paterno is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paterno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,293 people named Paterno in 2010, about 1 in 257 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paterno?
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/paternoThe 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, “Paterno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.