Ataya

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Remember the future

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/əteɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ataya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 84K
  • NONorway1 in 109K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

164 people, 2010

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Remember the future

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ataya 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.

Where Ataya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1641 in 2M201Ataya87
SE Sweden1211 in 84K121—1
BR Brazil741 in 2.9M74——
NO Norway501 in 109K50—2
DK Denmark281 in 210K28——
CH Switzerland121 in 700K12—2
BE Belgium91 in 1.3M9Ataya5

164 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ataya is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ätäÿä, Ãtàýà

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Àtaya, Atãyà

  • Hindi given name110 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Thai, Bangla

    Also written Atiya, อัธยา, อรรถยา, อติญา, อธิญา

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ataya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Cebuano, damned

    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)

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)

FormalDear Ataya,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Ataya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020201#96,965
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010164#108,199
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000121#129,619
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—121#6,209
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—74#79,169
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—50#26,160
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—28#17,731
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202412#53,184
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20089#75,279
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Ataya mean, and where does it come from?
Remember the future Recorded by The African book of names.
How do you pronounce Ataya?
A machine transcription gives /əteɪə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Ataya have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 164 people named Ataya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ataya.
Where is Ataya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ataya is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 84 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ataya?
In the United States, the national register counted 164 people named Ataya in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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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, “Ataya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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