Platon
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Plato (Greek philosopher)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pletən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Platon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 68K
- ESSpain1 in 95K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Platon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Plato (Greek philosopher)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Platon is read(measured from records)
Platon is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English38%
Greek; wise, broad-shouldered
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- Spanish31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Platon in Spanish.
- French17%
Plato (Greek philosopher)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Platon 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 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Platon | 27 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Platon | 14 |
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 133 | Platon | 178 |
| US United States | 883as Plato | 1 in 377K | 964 | Platon | 83 |
| MD Moldova | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 436 | — | 8 |
| ES Spain | 526 | 1 in 95K | 526 | Platon | 50 |
| SE Sweden | 185as Plato | 1 in 55K | 185 | — | 4 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Platon | 9 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; e-services.md — living population register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Platon is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, , gr. I1Xciccov < 70,Ovro4 larg si plat". 1. Platon, munt. (BCI VIII 34) ; mold. (17 A IV 149 ; Sd XI 87) ; - Ctrstea (17 A II 245) etc. ; -a f. 2. Platonifa si Platanesti tt. 3. Prin schimbarea partii finale : Platin, act. Pilitanesti v. Platon 2. Pobrajie v. Po breaj en 3.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Russian, de platis, large d'épaules.
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, "wide." Russianization of Plato.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of plato
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georges Platonb. 1859FRFrench librarian (1859-1917)
- Charles Platonb. 1886FRFrench politician (1886-1944)
- Nikolaos Platonb. 1909GRGreek anthropologist, archaeologist and art historian (1909-1992)
- Maria Platonb. 1924RORomanian philologist
- Gheorghe Platonb. 1926RORomanian historian
- Eugene Platonb. 1959RURussin boat builder
- Veaceslav Platonb. 1973MDMoldovan politician
- Ruslan Platonb. 1982UAUkrainian footballer (born 1982)
- Alina Platonb. 2000RORomanian canoeist
- Thierry PlatonFRvideo game screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 436 | #488 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 298 | #6,649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 203 | #37,821 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 104 | #7,172 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 79 | #10,019 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #37,821 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Platon mean, and where does it come from?
- Plato (Greek philosopher) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Platon?
- A machine transcription gives /pletən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Platon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Platon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled platon.
- How common is the name Platon?
- In Spain, the national register counted 526 people named Platon, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/platonThe 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, “Platon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.