Tatarka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Tatarka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 221 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Tatarka is also written Татарка in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 223K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 327K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tatarka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 223K (inferred from the name graph)
221 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tatarka in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Татарка in RU Russia.
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)Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tatarka is found
(measured from records)Tatarka 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 | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 222 | Tatarka | 11 |
| PL Poland | 117 | 1 in 327K | 60 | Tatarka | 19 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 717K | — | Tatarka | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 48 | 1 in 223K | 49 | Tatarka | 9 |
| RU Russia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Татарка | 37 |
221 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)Tatarka 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 Czech, tartar sauce (US), tartare sauce (UK)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, dim of Tatarka.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Basque, ( AN ap. A ). A tientas. "A la gallina ciega" A . Tatarka artu dut esku artean, / adi, aren mintzoari... / euskera goxoz irosor bait-nau... / mendrezkak legez ezti dari. JKort EG 1956 (3-4), 16.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Dominik Tatarkab. 1913SKSlovak writer (1913-1989)
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tatarka mean, and where does it come from?
- Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tatarka?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 221 people named Tatarka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tatarka. After it come Poland, Ukraine, Czechia and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tatarka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tatarka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 223 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tatarka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 221 people named Tatarka in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tatarkaThe 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, “Tatarka” — ranked 79676th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.