Morataya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Moratalla, habitational name from a village in Murcia province
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/moɾataʝa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morataya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common surname.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 3.3K
- USUnited States1 in 181K
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Moratalla, habitational name from a village in Murcia province.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morataya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #78 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Morataya | 47 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Morataya | 2 |
| SV El Salvador | #338 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Morataya | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,842 | 1 in 181K | 1.9K | Morataya | 156 |
| HN Honduras | #599 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Morataya | 10 |
| BS Bahamas | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Morataya | 1 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Evelyn Moratayab. 1972GTGuatemalan politician
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,934 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Morataya mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Moratalla, habitational name from a village in Murcia province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morataya?
- A machine transcription gives /moɾataʝa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Morataya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Morataya in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morataya.
- How common is the name Morataya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,842 people named Morataya in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
- How common is Morataya compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Morataya is the 78th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moratayaThe 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, “Morataya” — the 78th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.