Tota

given name · Latin script

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

Tota is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In the Sudan it is the 96th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 6.3K
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 9.1K

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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈59,000 people, est.

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

subst. olt. (claie de snopi). 1. Radu Totdi, in genitiv, olt. (16 B ...). 2. Tofea, lam. act. 3. Tofoc (ib.) Tofoi s. 4. Tops Radul (17 B I 479).

Sources 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tota 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 Tota is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#120≈59,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Tota37
SD Sudan#96≈4,400 est.≈1 in 10K—Tota6
SA Saudi Arabia—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Tota24
SY Syria—≈520 est.≈1 in 37K—Tota6
KW Kuwait#620≈470 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Tota13
AE United Arab Emirates—≈300 est.≈1 in 33K—Tota12
BR Brazil—321 in 6.6M608——

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Tota is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, South Africa

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Tõtä, Tôtã, Tôtà

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tōta, Tóta, Totā, Ţoţa

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom, United States, Sudan

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Țoța, Tôtä, Tötä, Töta, Tóta

  • Spanish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tôta, Tóta, Tótâ, Tötã, Tötä

  • Bangla given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Ťota

  • Polish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Tötâ, Tôťâ, Tôtä

  • Turkish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Tötà, Tôtä, Tötä, Ťôtâ, Tôtâ

45 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tota is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A kind of monkey, the grivet or waag.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, try to fix, have a shot at

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, partitive singular of toi

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, feminine singular of tot

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, flap of skin; lappet

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, inflection of tōtus:

    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)

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 36 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Tota
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—608#14,292

Reference works 4

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

Is Tota a male or female name?
Tota is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Tota have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Tota in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tota.
How common is the name Tota?
In Brazil, the national register counted 32 people named Tota in 2022, about 1 in 6.6 million residents.
How common is Tota compared with other names?
In Egypt, Tota is the 120th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tota” — the 120th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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