Katakam

surname · Latin script

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

Katakam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 445K(measured from records)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 582K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 701K

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.

India (measured from records)

2,980 people

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 445K (inferred from the name graph)

India

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Katakam 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 Katakam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India2,9801 in 445K3KKatakam93
ID Indonesia≈260 est.≈1 in 1M—Katakam2
US United States1281 in 2.6M289Katakam108
GB United Kingdom≈30 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Katakam21
SG Singapore≈11 est.≈1 in 582K—Katakam4
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted——

2,980 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Katakam is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States

    Also written กาตาคำ, Katakham

35 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Katakam have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Katakam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katakam.
Where is Katakam most common?
Katakam is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 445 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Katakam?
In India, the national register counted 2,980 people named Katakam, about 1 in 445 thousand 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, “Katakam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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