Ataman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ata kişi, başkan, önder (TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/atamˈan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ataman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 419 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 91K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 101K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 150K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
419 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ataman
- Turkish:/atamˈan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Ata kişi, başkan, önder.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ataman is found
(measured from records)Ataman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 419 | 1 in 91K | 210 | Ataman | 1 |
| US United States | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 150 | Ataman | 95 |
| NL Netherlands | 77 | 1 in 224K | 77 | Ataman | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 58 | 1 in 101K | 58 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 56 | 1 in 150K | 56 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 4 |
419 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Ataman 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 Russian, Ataman Zavialich, Ovrutsk landowner. 1545.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fisherman artel and of a band of robbers or thieves.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, Cossack chieftain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, ward, dependent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, ataman, hetman
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)- Kutluğ Atamanb. 1961TRTurkish film director (born 1961)
- Ergin Atamanb. 1966TRTurkish basketball coach (born 1966)
- Bülent Atamanb. 1974TRTurkish association football player (born 1974)
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ataman?
- In Turkish /atamˈan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Ataman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ata kişi, başkan, önder.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ataman?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 419 people named Ataman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ataman. After it come United States, Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ataman most common?
- Ataman is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ataman?
- In Poland, the national register counted 419 people named Ataman in 2026, about 1 in 91 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/atamanThe 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, “Ataman” — ranked 15469th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.