Ater
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Ater is a biblical name from the Old Testament, belonging to an ancestor whose family returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ater is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.1M
- BRBrazil1 in 5M
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈63 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aeter in US United States.
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)
Ater is a biblical name from the Old Testament, belonging to an ancestor whose family returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. The name may mean 'binder' or 'maimed' in Hebrew.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ater 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 | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | 1.2K | Aeter | 208 |
| BR Brazil | 42 | 1 in 5M | 43 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 1 | — | 29 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | 1 | — | 16 |
| BE Belgium | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | 5 | — | 4 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Ater 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.
A rare biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'binder', Ater was an ancestor whose family played a role in rebuilding the community in Jerusalem after the exile.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Ater is possibly derived from a Hebrew root meaning 'binder,' 'shut up,' or 'maimed'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The Hebrew name 'Āṭēr' is understood to mean 'binder' or possibly 'crippled'/'maimed'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In sas, bring food to someone who is working outside of the house
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Al Aterb. 1953USAmerican politician (1953–2017)
- Rami Aterb. 1960ILIsraeli sculptor
- Drew Aterb. 1989USAmerican actor, screenwriter, personal trainer, adult and fitness model
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,209 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,725 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #100,487 |
| US United States | wru 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
- Where does the name Ater come from?
- Ater is a biblical name from the Old Testament, belonging to an ancestor whose family returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile. The name may mean 'binder' or 'maimed' in Hebrew. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What does the name Ater mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ater is a biblical name from the Old Testament, belonging to an ancestor whose family returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.
- In which country does Ater have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 people named Ater in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aeter.
- How common is the name Ater?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 42 people named Ater in 2022, about 1 in 5.0 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ater”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.