Phathan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Phathan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • THThailand≈1 in 620Kas ปทาน(inferred from the name graph)
  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54Kas Pitan
  • INIndia1 in 60Kas Pathan

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Phathan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

22,054 named Pathan

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Kitts & Nevis, as Pitan

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PathanLatin(measured from records)
พิธานThai(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pathan in IN India, TH Thailand, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Phathan 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 Phathan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India22,054as Pathan1 in 60K22KPathan32
BR Brazil616as Pithan1 in 344K616——
US United States483as Pathan1 in 689K881Pathan18
PL Poland445as Patan1 in 86K230——
TH Thailand≈110 est.≈1 in 620K#397,351Pathan72
FI Finland44as Pathan1 in 127K44——
GY Guyana4as Patan1 in 188K4——
KN St. Kitts & Nevis1as Pitan1 in 54K1——

22,054 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Phathan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—191#16,709
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—34#45,626
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—19#81,824

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Phathan have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Pathan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Phathan most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Phathan itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is St. Kitts & Nevis's: the national register counts about 1 in 54 thousand people named Pitan.
How common is the name Phathan?
In India, the national register counted 22,054 people named Pathan, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.

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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, “Phathan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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