Altair
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Altair is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 1.6Kas Альтаир
- RURussia≈1 in 599Kas Альтаир
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Altair itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
31,174 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Альтаир in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia and Al'Tair in TJ Tajikistan.
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)
The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae. It is the twelfth brightest star in the sky, and forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Altair 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 | #585 | 31,174 | 1 in 6.8K | 38K | Altair | 130 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #441 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 13K | Альтаир | 33 |
| US United States | — | 376 | 1 in 885K | 237 | Altair | 91 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 599K | #2,240 | Альтаир | 81 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Al'Tair | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Altair | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | Altair | 10 |
31,174 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Altair 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.
In Portuguese, Altair (star in the constellation Aquila)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, star
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Bird star; from Arabic for 'the flyer'
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In Irish, second-person singular present indicative of alt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, Altair (white main-sequence star)
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)
- Altair Tejeda de Tamezb. 1922MXwriter, poet and playwright
- Altair Limab. 1936BRBrazilian actor
- Altair Guidib. 1937BRBrazilian politician
- Altair Gomes de Figueiredob. 1938BRBrazilian footballer (1938-2019)
- Altair Ramos Barbosab. 1956BRBrazilian association football manager
- Altair Fileti Azevedob. 1965BRBrazilian association football player
- Altair Martinsb. 1975BRBrazilian writer
- Altair Jarabob. 1986MXMexican actress
- Altair Cabral TraninBRBrazilian politician
- Altair ChagasBRBrazilian politician
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Altair come from?
- The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae. It is the twelfth brightest star in the sky, and forms one corner of the Summer Triangle. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Altair mean?
- Recorded meaning: The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae.
- Is Altair a male or female name?
- Altair is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Altair have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Altair, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled altair.
- Where is Altair most common?
- Altair is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Altair?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31,174 people named Altair in 2022, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Altair compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Altair is the 585th most common given name of 474,894 given names 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/altairThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Altair” — the 585th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.