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) 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 ====