Ratai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Ratai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.6M
- USUnited States≈1 in 8.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5M (inferred from the name graph)
48 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ratai is found
(measured from records)Ratai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 48 | 1 in 28M | 48 | Ratai | 13 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.2M | listed | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 32 | 1 in 6.6M | 32 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
48 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)Ratai is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "fight for."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In French, first-person singular past historic of rater
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of ratar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, nominative plural of ratas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, synonym of ratakan
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ratai?
- In India, the national register counted about 48 people named Ratai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ratai. After it come United States, Brazil, Poland and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ratai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ratai is densest in Poland — about 1 in 5.5 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ratai?
- In India, the national register counted 48 people named Ratai, about 1 in 28 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ratai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rataiThe 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, “Ratai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.