Gatmaitan

Tagalog

Etymology

From Gat +‎ Mait +‎ -an, presumed to be one of the rulers or nobility of an ancient sovereign polity, known in Chinese records as「麻逸」, read in Mandarin 麻逸 (Máyì) and Hokkien 麻逸 (Mâ-i̍t, literary reading) and historically known through the atonal Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin, “Ma-i”.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡatmajˈtan/ [ɡɐt̪.maɪ̯ˈt̪an̪], /ɡatmaiˈtan/ [ɡɐt̪.mɐ.ɪˈt̪an̪]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: Gat‧mai‧tan, Gat‧ma‧i‧tan

Proper noun

Gatmaitán (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔ᜋᜌ᜔ᜆᜈ᜔)

  1. a surname from Tagalog, mostly concentrated in Batangas and Oriental Mindoro

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gatmaitan is the 952nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 9,925 individuals.

See also

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