Patriarca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patriarch (male head of a community or household) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/paˈtɾjaɾka/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Patriarca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 23Kfew records
- ISIceland≈1 in 31K
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)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Patriarca
- Spanish:/paˈtɾjaɾka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/pa.tɾiˈaɻ.ka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patriarch (male head of a community or household)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Patriarca is found
(measured from records)Patriarca 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 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Patriarca | 31 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Patriarca | 36 |
| BR Brazil | 1,222 | 1 in 173K | 1.2K | Patriarca | 61 |
| US United States | 513 | 1 in 648K | 513 | Patriarca | 53 |
| AR Argentina | 399 | 1 in 114K | 399 | Patriarca | 37 |
| PT Portugal | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Patriarca | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | Patriarca | 5 |
| IS Iceland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)Patriarca is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do grego patriarkhes, via latim patriarcha
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Gabriele Patriarcab. 1916ITItalian painter (1916-1988)
- Walter Patriarcab. 1935ITItalian scenographer, costume designer and painter
- Gabriele Patriarcab. 1988ITItalian actor
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Patriarca mean, and where does it come from?
- patriarch (male head of a community or household) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Patriarca?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /paˈtɾjaɾka/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /pa.tɾiˈaɻ.ka/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Patriarca?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Patriarca in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patriarca. After it come Italy, Brazil, United States and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Patriarca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,222 people named Patriarca, about 1 in 173 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/patriarcaThe 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, “Patriarca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.