Tatá

given name · Latin script

Meaning: daddy, papa

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tatá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 894K(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 1M
  • ESSpain1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

372 people, 2020

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 894K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tata in ES Spain and Tätä in CO Colombia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

daddy, papa

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 35 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tatá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Tatá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3721 in 894K1.3K—64
BR Brazil881 in 2.4M106—54
CO Colombia≈47 est.≈1 in 1M—Tätä26
ES Spain331 in 1.5M60Tata29
NL Netherlands51 in 3.5M5—2
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——

372 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tatá is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Ta-Ta, Tata

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Tata, Ta-Ta, Táta, Ta'Ta, Tätä

  • Italian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Tatà, Tata, Tãtã, Tatã

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tāta, Tátá, Ţaṭa, Tata, Tąta

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tata

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tatá is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bya, father’s brother, mother’s brother

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In isd, nipa leaves (for thatch)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In tpn, absolute of atá

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lingala, father, daddy

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pln, father

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tatá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tatá mean, and where does it come from?
daddy, papa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Tatá a male or female name?
Tatá is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Tatá have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 372 people named Tatá, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tatá most common?
Tatá is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 894 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tatá?
In the United States, the national register counted 372 people named Tatá in 2020, about 1 in 894 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tat%C3%A1

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Tatá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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