Atack
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Atack is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. variant of Eatough . This name was brought into the West Riding from Lancs, the earliest example being Atowght, recorded in Crofton, 1545 in Redmonds (1997).
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4M (inferred from the name graph)
141 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
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)
Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. variant of Eatough . This name was brought into the West Riding from Lancs, the earliest example being Atowght, recorded in Crofton, 1545 in Redmonds (1997). Further information: There is no evidence to support Reaney’s derivation of this surname from Middle English atte ak or atte ok ‘dweller by the oak’.
Sources 2
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atack 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 167 | — | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Atack | 6 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Atack | 4 |
141 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margaret Atackb. 1948GBProfessor of French at the University of Leeds
- Jon Atackb. 1955GBBritish writer and anti-Scientology activist, former Scientology member
- Tim Atackb. 1959GBBritish composer
- Carol Atackb. 1964GBclassicist
- Emily Atackb. 1989GBBritish actress
- John M AtackAUresearcher
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 167 | #111,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 141 | #122,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 111 | #138,741 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #168,207 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Atack mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. variant of Eatough . This name was brought into the West Riding from Lancs, the earliest example being Atowght, recorded in Crofton, 1545 in Redmonds (1997). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Atack have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 141 people named Atack, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Atack most common?
- Atack is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Atack?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Atack in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million 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/atackThe 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, “Atack”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.