Takata
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pure, clean; become clear
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Takata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 370K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 178K
- BRBrazil1 in 239K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
899 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pure, clean; become clear.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Takata 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 899 | 1 in 370K | 919 | Takata | 190 |
| BR Brazil | 885 | 1 in 239K | 885 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | Takata | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
899 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Takata 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 umb, pass away ; evaporate
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, evaporate
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, pass away
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Takata Sanaeb. 1860JPJapanese political scientist and politician
- Shinji Takatab. 1893JPJapanese orientalist
- Tamotsu Takatab. 1895JPJapanese dramatist, playwright, essayist and film director
- Seiko Takatab. 1895JP(1895-1977) Japanese dancer
- Hawayo Takatab. 1900USIntroduced Reiki to the Western World (1900–1980)
- Shin'ichi Takatab. 1920JP(1920-1960) Japanese composer and conductor
- Taro Hakaseb. 1968JPnot in their usual nameJapanese musician
- Mayuko Takatab. 1971JPJapanese actress
- Brian Teeb. 1977JPnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Tomoki Takatab. 1990JPJapanese baseball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 919 | #25,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 899 | #26,975 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 885 | #10,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 865 | #29,168 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 19 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #135,901 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Takata mean, and where does it come from?
- Pure, clean; become clear. Recorded by The African book of names.
- In which country does Takata have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 899 people named Takata, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled takata.
- Where is Takata most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Takata is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 178 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Takata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 899 people named Takata in 2010, about 1 in 370 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takataThe 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, “Takata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.