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All over the world, Ataman (Ataman , Hauptmann , Атаман ) is quite a rare principally masculine, but scarcely female forename. The forename Ataman is habitual in Turkey, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Morocco, where it is a rare masculine name, and Kyrgyzstan. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Turkey, Nigeria, and Morocco. More prevalently, Ataman is the last name as well as the forename.
Ataman is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Hauptmann , the operatic character in the opera Brockes-Passion (Händel), Brockes Passion; Hauptmann , the operatic character in the opera Simplicius Simplicissimus; Hauptmann Octavio , the operatic character in the opera Giuditta; Hauptmann der Piraten , the operatic character in the opera Giroflé-Girofla and Hauptmann Burko , the operatic character in the operetta Der liebe Augustin, and in many other works.