Prêta

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular past historic of prêter

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

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

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 764K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
  • ARArgentina1 in 4.5M

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.

Switzerland (measured from records)

11 people, 2024

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 764K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

third-person singular past historic of prêter

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Prêta 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 Prêta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—1
AR Argentina101 in 4.5M10——
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4—1
FR France≈3 est.≈1 in 23M—Prêta38
BR Brazil——242——

11 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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 — Nomes (census name API); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Portuguese name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, India

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi

    Also written Preta

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Prêta 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 Portuguese, feminine singular of prêto

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Prêta 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 Prêta mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular past historic of prêter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Prêta have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 11 people named Prêta, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Prêta most common?
Prêta is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 764 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Prêta?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 11 people named Prêta in 2024, about 1 in 764 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, “Prêta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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