Pâte

loc · Latin script

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

Pâte is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 9.6K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈69,000 people, est.

Sources
447 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pate in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IN India and 4 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)

Derivation of Pâte: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pâte
  1. Middle Englishpate(measured from records)
  2. Latinpatina“pan“pan, dish”(measured from records)

From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).

Sources 8

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pâte 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 Pâte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈69,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Pate6
US United States—29,3271 in 11K29KPate447
IN India—8,8051 in 151K8.8KPate55
GB United Kingdom—≈4,200 est.≈1 in 16K1.3KPate147
EG Egypt—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 38K—Pate6
TN Tunisia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 9.6K—Pate5
SG Singapore#899≈540 est.≈1 in 12K—Pate4
FI Finland—≈460 est.≈1 in 12K54—6

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

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

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Pate, Patê, Pâté, Paté

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Pâte 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 French, paste

    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 Pâte 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 Pâte mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 6 other sources.
In which country does Pâte have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Pâte in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pate.
How common is the name Pâte?
In the United States, the national register counted 29,327 people named Pâte in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Pâte compared with other names?
In Singapore, Pâte is the 899th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pâte” — the 899th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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