Arat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Cesaret, yüreklilik
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 62K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 32K
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 Arat 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
1. Cesaret, yüreklilik. 2. Halk.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #816 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Arat | 74 |
| US United States | — | 7,035as Archie | 1 in 47K | 17K | Arat | 68 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Arat | 34 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 236K | — | Arat | 48 |
| IN India | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | 2 | Arat | 9 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Arat | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 62 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Arat 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 Kurdish, Fragment of fire
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Latin, third-person singular present active indicative of arō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, second-person plural present indicative of art
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, definite nominative/accusative plural of arë
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of ara
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)
- Celal Aratb. 1883TRTurkish diplomat and statesperson (1883–1968)
- Reşit Rahmeti Aratb. 1900TRTurkish linguist and writer (1900–1964)
- Mete Aratb. 1937TRTurkish architect (1937–2022)
- Necla Aratb. 1940TRTurkish statesperson (born 1940)
- Ender Aratb. 1947TRTurkish diplomat (born 1947)
- Yeşim Aratb. 1955TRTurkish political scientist and writer (born 1955)
- Melda Aratb. 1970TRTurkish actor (born 1970)
- Can Aratb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- İbrahim Aratb. 1988TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1988)
- Ufuk Sezen Aratb. 1996TRTurkish chess player (born 1996)
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 27 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #34,591 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Arat mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Cesaret, yüreklilik.
- In which country does Arat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Arat in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arat.
- How common is the name Arat?
- In Finland, the national register counted 30 people named Arat, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Arat compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Arat is the 816th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aratThe 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, “Arat” — the 816th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.