Prat
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Catalan: meadow
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/pʀa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Prat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 30K
- ARArgentina1 in 58K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)meadow
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Prat is read
(measured from records)Prat is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- French49%
altération de Duprat, de du Prat « de Le Prat », nom de plusieurs localités surtout dans le sud-ouest de la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Spanish38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Prat in Spanish.
- Catalan6.5%
meadow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.5%
A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Prat 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 | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 907 | Prat | 3 |
| ES Spain | #543 | 6,920 | 1 in 7.2K | 6.9K | Prat | 159 |
| AR Argentina | — | 785 | 1 in 58K | 785 | Prat | 55 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Prat | 59 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | Prat | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 154 | 1 in 22K | 154 | Prat | 22 |
| AD Andorra | #332 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Prat | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Prat is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, it/ p. to create from one’ s imagination, to imagine; fictional; fictitious; n. fiction, {a.w.: mnjCuna coined or created word. tg&[uan tale, fiction
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Khmer, to have dry skin (because of cold and wind). to have dry itchy skin
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Swedish, talk, speech, conversation
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)- Arturo Pratb. 1848CLChilean naval officer, lawyer, and professor
- Mercedes Pratb. 1880ESSpanish religious (1880–1936)
- Hugo Prattb. 1927ITnot in their usual nameItalian comic book creator (1927-1995)
- Éric Pratb. 1956FRFrench actor
- Melcior Maurib. 1966ESnot in their usual nameCatalan cyclist
- Andrea Pratb. 1967ITItalian economist
- Lionel Pratb. 1971FRFrench association football player
- Núria Martínezb. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1984)
- Andreu Fontàsb. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Flavien Pratb. 1992FRFrench jockey
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.9K | #792 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.9K | #792 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 928 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 907 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Prat mean, and where does it come from?
- meadow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Prat?
- In the etymology graph, Pratt is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Prat?
- A machine transcription gives /pʀa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Prat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Prat in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prat.
- Where is Prat most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Prat is densest in Spain — about 1 in 7.2 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Prat?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,920 people named Prat, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Prat compared with other names?
- In Andorra, Prat is the 332nd most common surname of 755 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pratThe 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, “Prat” — the 332nd most common surname in Andorra. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.