Tartar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t̪aɾt̪aɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tartar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 624K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 73K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Terter in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tartar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Tartar | 33 |
| FR France | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 39 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 170 | Tartar | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 722K | — | Tartar | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 12 | Tartar | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Tartar | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 624K | — | Terter | 2 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Tartar 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 Romanian, subst. Tartard, S., ard. (C Cos II 476). 2. Cf. Tartaraul munte (Sur VI).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In English, Asian tribal people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In sga, passive singular present subjunctive perfective prototonic of do·beir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, Tartar (of or relating to any of several Turkic groups)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, tartare (chopped fine and served raw)
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)
- Luc Tartarb. 1946FRFrench mathematician
- Mehdi Tartarb. 1972IRIranian association football manager
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 170 | #98,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tartar mean, and where does it come from?
- A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tartar?
- In the etymology graph, Tatar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tartar?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪aɾt̪aɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Tartar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Tartar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tartar.
- How common is the name Tartar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 153 people named Tartar in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tartarThe 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, “Tartar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.