Patito

given name · Latin script

Meaning: duckling

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Patito is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 84K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 229K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Chile (inferred from the name graph)

≈450 people, est.

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

duckling

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Patito 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.

Where Patito is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CL Chile≈450 est.≈1 in 41K—Patito7
BO Bolivia≈140 est.≈1 in 84K—Patito4
CO Colombia≈110 est.≈1 in 454K—Patito5
US United States≈78 est.≈1 in 4.3MlistedPatito21
GT Guatemala≈75 est.≈1 in 229K—Patito5
AR Argentina≈51 est.≈1 in 900K—Patito26

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Patito is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Ecuador, Kenya

    Also written Patïto, Paťitô, Patitò, Patitó

  • Lao given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ปะติโส, Pätïtö, ปะติโต, Pátító, ปะตโส

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Pàtìtò

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Patitò

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Patito 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 pi, nominative singular masculine of patita, which is past participle of patati (“to fall”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, past participle of patire

    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 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Patito
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Patito mean, and where does it come from?
duckling Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Patito a male or female name?
Patito is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Patito have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 446 people named Patito in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patito.
How common is the name Patito?
Mondonomo estimates about 450 people in Chile have Patito as their first given name, about 1 in 41 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Patito”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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