Atiku
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Atiku is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
- NGNigeria
- UGUganda
- GHGhana
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atiku counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #872 | — | listed | Atiku | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Atiku | 38 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Atiku | 25 |
| GH Ghana | — | — | — | Atiku | 16 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | Atiku | 4 |
| UG Uganda | — | — | — | Atiku | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Atiku | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the masakhane register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Atiku have the most bearers?
- Atiku is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled atiku.
- How common is Atiku compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Atiku is the 872nd most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Atiku?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atikuThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Atiku” — the 872nd most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.