Patriarca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patriarch (male head of a community or household)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
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)
- ARArgentina1 in 114K
- BRBrazil1 in 173K
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)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patriarch (male head of a community or household)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Patriarca | 31 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 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 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Patriarca | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | Patriarca | 5 |
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)
- Emilio Patriarcab. 1889ITItalian priest, teacher, librarian and historian (1889-1969)
- Gabriele Patriarcab. 1916ITItalian painter (1916-1988)
- Walter Patriarcab. 1935ITItalian scenographer, costume designer and painter
- Emilio Patriarcab. 1937ITItalian priest
- Fátima Patriarcab. 1944PThistorian, researcher
- Gianna Patriarcab. 1951CACanadian poet and writer
- Edoardo Patriarcab. 1953ITItalian politician
- Fabrizio Patriarcab. 1972ITItalian writer (born 1972)
- Giuseppe Patriarcab. 1977ITItalian volleyball player and beach volleyball player
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 513 | #42,308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 500 | #45,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 399 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Patriarca mean, and where does it come from?
- patriarch (male head of a community or household) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Patriarca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Patriarca in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patriarca.
- How common is the name Patriarca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,222 people named Patriarca, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Patriarca?
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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 2026-10-10.