Otac
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Otac is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: , fam., mold. (RI XII 243) ; Otacul, Toma Tigingas, 1674 (Rac 25), < tatar .otak tort ".
- SESweden1 in 255K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 781K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.9M
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
40 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, fam., mold. (RI XII 243) ; Otacul, Toma Tigingas, 1674 (Rac 25), < tatar .otak tort ".
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Otac 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 40 | 1 in 255K | 40 | — | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Otac | 3 |
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | — |
40 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Otac 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 Romanian, fenced area for animals
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, father
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, OTÁC, otace, s. n. (Reg.) 1. Colibă care servește ca adăpost provizoriu pescarilor, ciobanilor sau muncitorilor agricoli în timpul lucrului; odaie. 2. Loc împrejmuit, pe câmp sau la munte, unde stau (noaptea) oile sau vitele. [Pl. și: otacuri].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40 | #14,917 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 7 | #63,380 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Otac mean, and where does it come from?
- , fam., mold. (RI XII 243) ; Otacul, Toma Tigingas, 1674 (Rac 25), < tatar .otak tort ". Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- In which country does Otac have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 40 people named Otac, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Otac most common?
- Otac is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 255 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Otac?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 40 people named Otac, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Otac?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/otacThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Otac”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.