Pitão

surname · Latin script

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

Pitão is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: python (any of the large constricting snakes of the genus Python).

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 580K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3M

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)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pitao in PH Philippines, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 more.

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(measured from records)

python (any of the large constricting snakes of the genus Python)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pitão 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 Pitão is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,700 est.≈1 in 63K—Pitao23
BR Brazil3651 in 580K365Pitao31
US United States≈17 est.≈1 in 19M—Pitao13
PT Portugal≈8 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Pitao5

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pitão is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Indonesia, Thailand

    Languages: English, Swahili, Indonesian

    Also written Pitao

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pitão under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pitão mean, and where does it come from?
python (any of the large constricting snakes of the genus Python) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Pitão have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Pitão in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pitao.
How common is the name Pitão?
In Brazil, the national register counted 365 people named Pitão, about 1 in 580 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, “Pitão”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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