Pateta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The Devil
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pateta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 65K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.6M
- SESweden≈1 in 3.6M
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
52 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The Devil.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pateta 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.
52 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Pateta 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 French, third-person singular past historic of pateter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, fool
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 52 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 29 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #56,048 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pateta mean, and where does it come from?
- The Devil. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pateta have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 52 people named Pateta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pateta.
- Where is Pateta most common?
- Pateta is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 65 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pateta?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 52 people named Pateta, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patetaThe 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, “Pateta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.