Tatai

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tɑtɒji/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tatai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Az Árpád-korban nem ritka Tata személynevünk származása vitatott.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 64K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 243K
  • NONorway1 in 304K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

66 people, 2021

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Az Árpád-korban nem ritka Tata személynevünk származása vitatott. Lehet német eredetű, vagy az olasz ’apa’ jelentésű, a magyarba ’keresztapa’ jelentéssel átkerülő név is. Komárom és Sopron vármegyében előforduló Tata városnevünk puszta személynévként magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül) keletkezett. Ezek az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzővel eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnévvé váltak. Elterjedtsége: A Dunán túl, annak is az északnyugati részén gyakoribb.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tatai 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.

Where Tatai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia661 in 64K66——
CZ Czechia441 in 243K44——
NO Norway181 in 304K18——
DZ Algeria≈13 est.≈1 in 3.2Mlisted—1
SE Sweden71 in 1.5M7——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

66 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the dz-kaggle-names 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tatai is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Tätäï

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000András Tatai, b. 1803Ilona Tatai, b. 1935Stefano Tatai, b. 1938Tibor Tatai, b. 1944András Tatai-Tóth, b. 1948István Tatai, b. 1957Erzsébet Tatai, b. 1958Péter Tatai, b. 1983Krisztina Tatai, b. 1993

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Tatai
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202166#10,906
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202151—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—44#32,028
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—18#45,087
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#48,015
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———

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

How do you pronounce Tatai?
A machine transcription gives /tɑtɒji/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
What does the name Tatai mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Az Árpád-korban nem ritka Tata személynevünk származása vitatott.
In which country does Tatai have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 66 people named Tatai, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tatai most common?
Tatai is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 64 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tatai?
In Croatia, the national register counted 66 people named Tatai in 2021, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.

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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, “Tatai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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