Attia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: afetivo de Nathan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ætiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Attia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 88th most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.8K
- FRFrance≈1 in 21K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
afetivo de Nathan
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Attia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #119 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Attia | 155 |
| TN Tunisia | #88 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Attia | 62 |
| DZ Algeria | #338 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Attia | 36 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 445 | Attia | 252 |
| SD Sudan | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | — | 17 |
| US United States | — | 1,232 | 1 in 270K | 1.8K | Attia | 189 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #552 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Attia | 57 |
| KW Kuwait | #661 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Attia | 27 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maurice Attiab. 1949FRFrench crime writer
- Dove Attiab. 1957TNFrench-Tunisian producer
- Caroline Attiab. 1960FRFrench alpine skier
- Kader Attiab. 1970FRFrench installation artist and photographer (born 1970)
- Peter Attiab. 1973CAsurgeon; self-experimenter
- Mohamed Habib Attiab. 1983TNTunisian film producer
- Marwan Ateyab. 1998EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
- Kahéna AttiaTNTunisian film editor
- Kehna Attiafilm editor
- Hamadi AttiaTNTunisian researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 801 | #28,142 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 454 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 445 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 361 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 355 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
| SD Sudan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #72 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Attia mean, and where does it come from?
- afetivo de Nathan Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Attia?
- A machine transcription gives /ætiə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Attia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Attia in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled attia.
- How common is the name Attia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,232 people named Attia in 2010, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Attia compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Attia is the 119th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/attiaThe 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, “Attia” — the 119th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.