Namata
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lord of obeisance. worshipped; a divine being
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəmətə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Namata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 225K
- UGUganda≈1 in 5.3K
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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
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(measured from records)
lord of obeisance. worshipped; a divine being.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Namata 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | #615 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Namata | 20 |
| IN India | — | 5,902 | 1 in 225K | 5.9K | Namata | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Namata | 19 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Namata | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 501K | listed | Namata | 9 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Namata 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.
Milk.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Cebuano, hit on the eye
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.9K | #1,402 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Namata mean, and where does it come from?
- lord of obeisance. worshipped; a divine being. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Namata?
- A machine transcription gives /nəmətə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Namata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Namata in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled namata.
- How common is the name Namata?
- In India, the national register counted 5,902 people named Namata, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.
- How common is Namata compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Namata is the 615th most common surname of 6,307 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Namata?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/namataThe 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, “Namata” — the 615th most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.