Katama

surname · Latin script

Meaning: best; excessively handsome

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 2.9M(measured from records)

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.

India (measured from records)

454 people

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

best; excessively handsome

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Katama 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 Katama is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India4541 in 2.9M454Katama14

454 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. 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Katamā

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

    Also written Ķåţāmã

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, France

    Also written Ķåţāmã

27 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)

Katama is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kmq, town, city

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nnd, door

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Basque, gatama ( -th- S-saug ap. Lh; T-L ). "Chatte" T-L . v. kateme.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Katama
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—454#9,900
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—19#65,162
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—10#29,919

Reference works 1

  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Katama mean, and where does it come from?
best; excessively handsome Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
In which country does Katama have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 454 people named Katama, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katama.
Where is Katama most common?
Katama is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Katama?
In India, the national register counted 454 people named Katama, about 1 in 2.9 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, “Katama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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