Pilota
surname · Latin script
Meaning: pilot (aircraft or ship)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɪɫoʊtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pilota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 363K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 643K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 363K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pilot (aircraft or ship)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pilota 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 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Pilota | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 643K | listed | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Pilota | 35 |
| DE Germany | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Pilota | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Pilota | 4 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pilota is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, exhaustion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of piloter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, genitive singular of pilots
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, genitive singular of pilot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, ball
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #126,037 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Pilota mean, and where does it come from?
- pilot (aircraft or ship) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pilota?
- A machine transcription gives /pɪɫoʊtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pilota have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 301 people named Pilota in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pilota.
- How common is the name Pilota?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Pilota in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Pilota?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pilotaThe 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, “Pilota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.