Ata Surname
Approximately 90,646 people bear this surname
Ata Surname User-submission:
The Ata surname means 'squid ink' in Cebuano.
Ata Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 25,397 | 1:3,064 | 434 |
| Egypt | 24,315 | 1:3,781 | 515 |
| Yemen | 6,487 | 1:4,074 | 606 |
| Sudan | 4,200 | 1:8,931 | 1,260 |
| India | 4,088 | 1:187,638 | 11,400 |
| Iran | 3,958 | 1:19,399 | 2,490 |
| Nigeria | 3,342 | 1:53,005 | 4,053 |
| Indonesia | 2,584 | 1:51,180 | 5,728 |
| Togo | 1,785 | 1:4,060 | 684 |
| Philippines | 1,604 | 1:63,116 | 10,712 |
| Pakistan | 1,484 | 1:120,380 | 3,542 |
| Japan | 1,253 | 1:102,031 | 6,118 |
| Congo | 834 | 1:5,982 | 929 |
| Ghana | 831 | 1:32,516 | 3,831 |
| Cameroon | 783 | 1:26,525 | 3,609 |
| Papua New Guinea | 777 | 1:10,494 | 913 |
| Afghanistan | 628 | 1:51,199 | 1,770 |
| Solomon Islands | 602 | 1:964 | 35 |
| Iraq | 566 | 1:61,876 | 2,250 |
| United States | 549 | 1:660,217 | 52,823 |
| DR Congo | 445 | 1:166,022 | 17,095 |
| Kiribati | 428 | 1:265 | 41 |
| Bangladesh | 360 | 1:442,658 | 11,259 |
| Malaysia | 323 | 1:91,313 | 6,347 |
| Peru | 288 | 1:110,362 | 6,740 |
| Saudi Arabia | 278 | 1:110,992 | 14,774 |
| Mexico | 267 | 1:464,892 | 8,604 |
| France | 258 | 1:257,452 | 39,723 |
| Germany | 213 | 1:377,960 | 35,636 |
| Niger | 195 | 1:98,421 | 4,058 |
| Benin | 134 | 1:77,131 | 9,191 |
| French Polynesia | 110 | 1:2,553 | 518 |
| Canada | 104 | 1:354,285 | 32,012 |
| England | 94 | 1:592,745 | 35,632 |
| Ivory Coast | 82 | 1:281,356 | 10,805 |
| Belgium | 75 | 1:153,289 | 21,368 |
| Denmark | 72 | 1:78,399 | 7,655 |
| Austria | 71 | 1:119,936 | 16,774 |
| Netherlands | 59 | 1:286,223 | 34,881 |
| Jordan | 53 | 1:166,838 | 8,814 |
| Turkmenistan | 46 | 1:119,329 | 2,383 |
| Thailand | 40 | 1:1,765,959 | 222,048 |
| New Zealand | 39 | 1:116,111 | 14,715 |
| Australia | 38 | 1:710,413 | 47,396 |
| Brazil | 32 | 1:6,689,823 | 158,565 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Sweden | 27 | 1:364,695 | 25,646 |
| Israel | 26 | 1:329,140 | 27,831 |
| China | 25 | 1:54,692,863 | 2,965 |
| Venezuela | 22 | 1:1,372,913 | 18,810 |
| Italy | 19 | 1:3,218,773 | 100,309 |
| Lebanon | 19 | 1:296,689 | 10,035 |
| Northern Cyprus | 19 | 1:16,790 | 4,295 |
| South Africa | 18 | 1:3,009,872 | 112,058 |
| Spain | 18 | 1:2,597,335 | 59,996 |
| Central African Republic | 16 | 1:282,212 | 92 |
| Eritrea | 16 | 1:296,994 | 232 |
| Ethiopia | 16 | 1:6,096,641 | 11,907 |
| Mauritania | 15 | 1:272,991 | 12,403 |
| Ukraine | 15 | 1:3,034,846 | 176,305 |
| Tunisia | 14 | 1:43,616 | 6,025 |
| Oman | 13 | 1:283,690 | 4,528 |
| Syria | 13 | 1:1,484,694 | 8,122 |
| Uganda | 11 | 1:3,549,025 | 89,142 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Vanuatu | 9 | 1:29,253 | 714 |
| Argentina | 8 | 1:5,342,927 | 168,491 |
| Taiwan | 8 | 1:2,930,593 | 17,989 |
| Burkina Faso | 7 | 1:2,621,729 | 17,588 |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 1:1,163,151 | 37,744 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5 | 1:1,194,531 | 65,188 |
| Albania | 4 | 1:728,514 | 20,844 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Kosovo | 3 | 1:620,623 | 10,771 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Palestine | 1 | 1:4,548,849 | 18,388 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
The alternate forms: Atá (1) are calculated separately.
Ata (110,599) may also be a first name.
Ata Surname Meaning
Ata Demographics
Average Male Ata Height
175.21 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Ata Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ata Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ata (Arabic: اطا, Bengali: আতা, Georgian: ატა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺗﺎ, Hindi: अता, Marathi: अता, Oriya: ଅତା, Tibetan: ཨ་ཏ་) is held by more people in Turkey than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant: Atá. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ata? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ata is the 6,246th most numerous surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 80,396 people. The surname is mostly found in Asia, where 51 percent of Ata live; 33 percent live in West Asia and 31 percent live in Arabic North Africa. It is also the 9,292nd most common first name world-wide. It is borne by 110,599 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Turkey, where it is held by 25,397 people, or 1 in 3,064. In Turkey Ata is most common in: Istanbul Province, where 17 percent are found, Ankara Province, where 7 percent are found and Konya Province, where 5 percent are found. Other than Turkey it exists in 107 countries. It is also common in Egypt, where 27 percent are found and Yemen, where 7 percent are found.
Ata Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Christian (87%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Ata surname are 15.52% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 68.75% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Ata earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 17.54% less than the national average, earning S/. 15,984 per year; in South Africa they earn 70.39% more than the national average, earning R 404,916 per year; in Colombia they earn 8.67% less than the national average, earning $20,733,500 COP per year; in United States they earn 11.39% more than the national average, earning $48,063 USD per year and in Canada they earn 21.81% more than the national average, earning $60,518 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ata Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ata in the Georgian language | ||
| ატა | ata | - |
| Ata in the Bengali language | ||
| আতা | ata | - |
| Ata in the Hindi language | ||
| अता | ata | 94.13 |
| आता | ata | 3.49 |
| आटा | ata | 1.26 |
| ाता | ata | 0.44 |
| अटा | ata | 0.34 |
| अत | ata | 0.05 |
| ़अता | ata | 0.05 |
| Ata in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཨ་ཏ་ | ata | 80 |
| ཨ་ཏགས་ | atak | 10 |
| ཨ་ཏ། | ata | 10 |
| Ata in the Oriya language | ||
| ଅତା | ata | 64.44 |
| ଆତା | ata | 15.56 |
| ଅଟା | ata | 7.78 |
| ଆଟା | ata | 5.56 |
| ଆତ | ata | 2.22 |
| ଆଟ | ata | 1.11 |
| Ata in the Marathi language | ||
| अता | ata | 47.18 |
| आता | ata | 28.17 |
| आटा | ata | 24.65 |
| Ata in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺗﺎ | ata | 35.29 |
| ﻋﺎﺕ | at | 17.65 |
| ﺁﺕ | at | 11.76 |
| ﺁﺗﻪ | ath | 11.76 |
| ﻋﺘﺎ | ta | 11.76 |
| ﺍﺕ | at | 5.88 |
| ﺁﺗﻰ | aty | 5.88 |
| Ata in the Arabic language | ||
| اطا | ata | - |
| طا | ta | - |
| تا | ta | - |
| عاتا | ata | - |
| عاطا | ata | - |
| آتا | ata | - |
| آتي | aty | - |
| عطاء | ta | - |
| عطا | ta | - |
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