Altai
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Altay (a mountain range in central Asia) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Altai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iraq than in any other country. Altai is also written ალთაი in Georgian.
- SESweden1 in 567K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
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.
- Iraq (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iraq, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Altai in other scripts: Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Al-Ta'I in IQ Iraq.
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)Altay (a mountain range in central Asia)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Altai is read
(measured from records)Altai is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese57%
Altay (a mountain range in central Asia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Altai in Arabic.
- English28%
lang., Russia; mts., Asia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Altai is found
(measured from records)Altai 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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)Altai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Altay (a mountain range)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, Altay (mountain range)
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)- Rezső Altaib. 1873HU(1873–1956)
- Hayder Altaib. 1998NONorwegian association football player
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Altai mean, and where does it come from?
- Altay (a mountain range in central Asia) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Altai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Altai in Iraq, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Al-Ta'i. After it come United States, Italy, Sweden and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Altai?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 18 people named Altai, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/altaiThe 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, “Altai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.