Patin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Patin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: slipper.
- USUnited States1 in 111K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 7.1K
- FRFrance≈1 in 19K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Патин in ET Ethiopia.
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)
slipper
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Patin | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | #223 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Patin | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 488 | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 2,996 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Patin | 235 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Патин | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Patin 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 Indonesian, shark catfish: a sharklike catfish of the family Pangasiidae, found across southern Asia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of patti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, godmother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, patin, patoche
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Jacques Patinb. 1501FRFrench illustrator and engraver
- Guy Patinb. 1601FRFrench physician
- Charles Patinb. 1633FRFrench physician (1633-1693)
- Madeleine Patinb. 1640FRFrench writer
- Charlotte-Catherine Patinb. 1660FRFrench writer
- Gabrielle-Charlotte Patinb. 1666FRFrench numismatist and painter (1666-1751)
- Henri Patinb. 1793FRFrench classical philologist and translator (1793-1876)
- Wilhelm August Patinb. 1879DEGerman theologian and priest
- Maurice Patinb. 1895FRFrench jurist and judge (1895-1962)
- Marc Patinb. 1919FRFrench writer and poet (1919–1944)
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,738 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 644 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 627 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 552 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 535 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 515 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 488 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 463 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 435 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 415 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Patin mean, and where does it come from?
- slipper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Patin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Patin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patin.
- How common is the name Patin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,996 people named Patin in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Patin compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Patin is the 223rd most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patinThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Patin” — the 223rd most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.