Âtef
surname · Latin script
Âtef is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 490(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 4.1Kfew records
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4.4Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 492 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, 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 Atef in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, TN Tunisia and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Âtef 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 | #16 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 492 | listed | Atef | 150 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #743 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Atef | 70 |
| TN Tunisia | #180 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Atef | 62 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Atef | 21 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Atef | 58 |
| KW Kuwait | #750 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Atef | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 54 | 1 in 926K | 55 | — | 22 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Âtef have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 237 thousand people named Âtef in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atef.
- How common is the name Âtef?
- In Spain, the national register counted 54 people named Âtef, about 1 in 926 thousand residents.
- How common is Âtef compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Âtef is the 16th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Âtef?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A2tefThe 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, “Âtef” — the 16th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.