Patron
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/patron/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Patron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K
- COColombia≈1 in 51K
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)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Patron is read(measured from records)
Patron is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish60%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Patron in Spanish.
- English24%
One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.4%
a boss, employer,
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patron 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 | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Patron | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Patron | 36 |
| IN India | — | 2,401 | 1 in 552K | 2.4K | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | #330 | 1,818 | 1 in 1.9K | 1.8K | Patron | 32 |
| US United States | — | 1,754 | 1 in 190K | 2.1K | Patron | 176 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 178 | — | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Patron | 47 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)
Patron 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 Romanian, < gr. 7rcis-pcov protector" < lat. patronus. 1. (Ard). 2. Patronie b., mehed. 3. + -ca, Patronca b. (Ard).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional de Patrone
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Afrikaans, patron; wealthy person who supports an artist, craftsman, a scholar, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a cartridge (for a fire arm, or holding for example ink)
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)
- Thérèse Agnes Franzonib. 1856CHnot in their usual namepainter (1856-1931)
- Elena Patronb. 1933PHFilipino writer
- Susan Patronb. 1948USAmerican children's book author
- Emmanuel Patronb. 1962FRFrench actor
- Paola Patronb. 1967UYUruguayan distance runner
- Albert Patronb. 1969ITComposer, philosopher, printmaker, writer
- Christian Patronb. 1988BEBelgian cyclist
- Pierre Patronb. 1997FRFrench footballer
- Stefano Patronb. 1999ITItalian gymnast
- Orietta PatronITItalian swimmer
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.4K | #2,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,896 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,304 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 254 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 243 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 230 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 188 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 185 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 178 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Patron mean, and where does it come from?
- One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Patron?
- A machine transcription gives /patron/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Patron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Patron in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patron.
- Where is Patron most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Patron is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Patron?
- In India, the national register counted 2,401 people named Patron, about 1 in 552 thousand residents.
- How common is Patron compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Patron is the 330th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patronThe 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, “Patron” — the 330th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.