Raton
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Raton is a name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OFr raton ‘rat’, or perhaps a metonymic name for a rat-catcher; first attested Richard Raton 1290 AssCh.
- VEVenezuela1 in 51K◐
- ESSpain1 in 73K
- PTPortugal1 in 341K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0K ●
- Sources
- 50 ●
- 1 in 73K ◐
across 7 countries
5.2K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ratón in ES Spain, AR Argentina.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
from OFr raton ‘rat’, or perhaps a metonymic name for a rat-catcher; first attested Richard Raton 1290 AssCh
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 686 | 1K rec. | 1 in 73K | 686 | Ratón | 50 |
| US United States | 180 | 315 rec. | — | listed | Raton | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 158 | 85 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 158 | Raton | 27 |
| AR Argentina | 120 | 866 rec. | 1 in 379K | 120 | Ratón | 26 |
| VE Venezuela | 96 | 9 rec. | — | — | Raton | 5 |
| MX Mexico | 59 | 656 rec. | — | — | Raton | 18 |
| CO Colombia | 49 | 78 rec. | — | — | Raton | 6 |
| FR France | 43 | — | 1 in 1.6M | 43 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | 36 | 7 rec. | — | — | Raton | 5 |
| IN India | 16 | 421 rec. | — | 1 | Raton | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 10△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | 7 | 9 rec. | — | — | Raton | 5 |
Roughly 686 people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 73K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.4M68%
- Chinese3601%
- Spanish2791%
- Portuguese2251%
- sb201%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,429,746 | 68% |
| Chinese | 360 | 1% |
| Spanish | 279 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 225 | 1% |
| sb | 20 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Raton 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 English, city. NM
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In lld, first-person plural present indicative of rater
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, genitive/dative singular of rāta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of rato
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of ratto
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 66 |
| 1901 | 69 |
| 1911 | 72 |
| 1921 | 81 |
| 1931 | 60 |
| 1941 | 89 |
| 1951 | 73 |
| 1961 | 88 |
| 1971 | 57 |
| 1981 | 83 |
| 1991 | 43 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Amaranta Ratón FresnoESSpanish politician
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 686 | #6,178 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 686 | #6,177 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 158 | #44,459 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 120 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 119 | #3,272 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 69 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Raton?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Raton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Raton have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 686 people bear Raton in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ratón.
- What does the name Raton mean?
- Recorded meaning: from OFr raton ‘rat’, or perhaps a metonymic name for a rat-catcher; first attested Richard Raton 1290 AssCh
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ratonThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Raton”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.