Êta

surname · Latin script

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

Êta is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: chercher ou mendier des céréales.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eta in FR France.

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)

chercher ou mendier des céréales

Sources 4

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Êta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France——Eta49
US United States—149—6
HR Croatia—85——
BR Brazil—66——
SE Sweden—28——
FI Finland—25—1

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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Êta is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Eta, Etã, Età, Éta

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Êta 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 Êta mean, and where does it come from?
chercher ou mendier des céréales Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Êta have the most bearers?
Êta is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled eta.

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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%AAta

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, “Êta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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