Vate
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vates, especially a Gaulish priest
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/vat/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Vate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 4.5M
- USUnited States≈1 in 15M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈52 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)vates, especially a Gaulish priest
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vate 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 10 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 15M | listed | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 11 | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 10 | 1 in 133M | 10 | Vate | 15 |
| AL Albania | — | — | 37 | — | — |
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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Vate 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 cdo, to adorn, to regulate, to restore, to rebuild, long, S. (4). to repair, to mend, (diing-siu). to rebuild, to repair. to develop, to revise. to build, to repair. to prepare a letter, (sia-pié). to cultivate virtue. tall bamboo
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In pi, inflection of vata (“religious duty”):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, vates (divinely inspired poet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, ablative singular of vātēs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-cha, alternative form of vaiche
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #122,078 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #24,518 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vate mean, and where does it come from?
- vates, especially a Gaulish priest Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Vate?
- In the etymology graph, Vates is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Vate?
- In French /vat/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Vate have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 people named Vate in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vate?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11 people named Vate, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vateThe 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, “Vate”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.