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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
Proper noun
Gatmaitán (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔ᜋᜌ᜔ᜆᜈ᜔)
- 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.
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