Karatas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Bromelia karatas, a West Indian plant of the pineapple family
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾatas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karatas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 551(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 33K
- FRFrance≈1 in 73K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 551 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 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:
Locally spelled Karataş in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
Bromelia karatas, a West Indian plant of the pineapple family.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karatas 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 | #47 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 551 | — | Karataş | 90 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Karatas | 102 |
| FR France | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 157 | Karatas | 142 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Karataş | 5 |
| AT Austria | #886 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Karatas | 21 |
| CY Cyprus | #115 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Karataş | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 315 | 1 in 19K | 315 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Karatas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kxd, alternative form of keratas (“paper”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdh, paper
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)
- Zekeriya Yalcin KaratasTRTurkish-American mathematics professor
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 315 | #1,479 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Karatas mean, and where does it come from?
- Bromelia karatas, a West Indian plant of the pineapple family. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Karatas?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾatas/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Karatas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 149 thousand people named Karatas in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karataş.
- How common is the name Karatas?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 315 people named Karatas, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Karatas compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Karatas is the 47th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karatasThe 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, “Karatas” — the 47th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.