Tato

Borrowed from Georgian ტატო (ṭaṭo) or Spanish Tato.

Tato (plural Tatos)

1. A male given name from Georgian.
2. A male given name from Spanish.

From tato (“stutterer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato̝/

Tato ?

1. a surname

• “Tato” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Tato” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtato/ [ˈt̪a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: Ta‧to

el Tato m

1. a male given name
2. a name used in various expressions, used to express that nobody does a certain thing

   No le va a votar ni el Tato.

   Not a single person is going to vote for him.

   (literally, “Not even "the Tato" is going to vote for him.”)

• “Tato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024