Sitta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: var. de Saitta, de sagitta, seta, flecha
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zittɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sitta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 42K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 153K
- HRCroatia1 in 184K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
1,381 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
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)
var. de Saitta, de sagitta, seta, flecha
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sitta 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.
1,381 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Sitta 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 Swedish, to sit (be in a position with the upper body upright and the legs resting)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, partitive/illative singular of sitt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, alternative form of ítta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, six (absolute form)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, feces, excrement
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pietro Sittab. 1866ITItalian politician (1866–1947)
- Heinz Sittab. 1926* 18.3.1926 Wien, † 9.9.1998 Wien. Komponist.
- Horst Sittab. 1936DEGerman linguist (1936–2020)
- Samwel John Sittab. 1942TZTanzanian politician
- Frank Sittab. 1978DEGerman politician (FDP)
- Vladimir SittaAUAustralian landscape architect
- Ingrid Sittahistorian
- Elton SittaBRresearcher
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,859 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 253 | #6,629 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 251 | #4,963 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 52 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 23 | #21,339 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 23 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 20 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sitta mean, and where does it come from?
- var. de Saitta, de sagitta, seta, flecha Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Sitta?
- A machine transcription gives /zittɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Sitta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Sitta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sitta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sitta is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sitta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,381 people named Sitta, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sitta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sittaThe 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, “Sitta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.