Tamata
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tamata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vanuatu than in any other country.
- VUVanuatu≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 221K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- Vanuatu (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vanuatu, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamata 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VU Vanuatu | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Tamata | 23 |
| IN India | 54 | 1 in 25M | 54 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 48 | Tamata | 12 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Tamata | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Tamata | 6 |
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list. 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)
Tamata is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fj, person, human being
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 54 | #42,277 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 23 | #57,986 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #13,537 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #8,718 |
| VU Vanuatu | Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list | 2020 | 1 | #4 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Tamata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 225 people named Tamata in Vanuatu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tamata?
- In India, the national register counted 54 people named Tamata, about 1 in 25 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tamata?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamataThe 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, “Tamata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.