Tater
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tater is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A potato.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 81K
- CZCzechia1 in 104K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tater itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
202 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Taeter in BE Belgium.
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)
A potato.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tater 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 202 | 1 in 1.6M | 212 | Tater | 137 |
| IN India | 160 | 1 in 8.3M | 160 | Tater | 39 |
| BE Belgium | 149as Taeter | 1 in 79K | 149 | Taeter | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | 103 | 1 in 104K | 103 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 65 | 1 in 3.3M | 65 | — | — |
| GH Ghana | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 554K | — | Tater | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Tater | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 755K | — | Tater | 10 |
202 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tater is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a Scandoromani person, a Traveller Norwegian (a kind of Norwegian Gypsies)
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1957 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1961 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Tater mean, and where does it come from?
- A potato. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tater have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 202 people named Tater, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tater.
- How common is the name Tater?
- In the United States, the national register counted 202 people named Tater in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taterThe 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, “Tater”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.