Neta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: granddaughter, female grandchild
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Neta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 62K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 131K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
granddaughter, female grandchild
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #320 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 454 | Neta | 96 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Neta | 4 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Neta | 26 |
| US United States | — | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 1.3K | Neta | 55 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 1 | Neta | 5 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Neta | 29 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 88 | — | — |
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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Neta 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.
Indra (५); Aghora (N); Balarama (N); Hanuman
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Swedish: short form of Agneta (see AGNETHE ).
as a word
In Russian, "burn."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ねた
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of nētus:
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Omira Estacia Netab. 1999BRcanoeist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 116 | #145,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Neta mean, and where does it come from?
- granddaughter, female grandchild Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Neta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Neta in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neta.
- How common is the name Neta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Neta in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Neta compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Neta is the 320th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/netaThe 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, “Neta” — the 320th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.