Patina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A paten, flat type of dish
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/patina/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Patina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1Mfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A paten, flat type of dish.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Patina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 209K | — | Patina | 1 |
| IN India | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 195 | Patina | 6 |
| US United States | 286 | 1 in 1.2M | 286 | Patina | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Patina | 27 |
| CA Canada | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Patina | 9 |
| IE Ireland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Patina | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Patina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plg. Paeina (žr.).
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Dutch, patina: the color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green oxidation which covers aging coppers, bronzes, coins and medals
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of patiner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, A broad, shallow dish, a pan, stewpan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, patina (color or incrustation)
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)- Patina Millerb. 1984USAmerican actress and singer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 740 | #5,046 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 195 | #18,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 185 | #98,099 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 162 | #114,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Patina mean, and where does it come from?
- A paten, flat type of dish. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Patina?
- In Spanish /patina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Patina a male or female name?
- Patina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Patina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Patina in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patina.
- Where is Patina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Patina is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Patina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Patina in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patinaThe 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, “Patina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.