Given name & surname
Arata
Arata is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arata through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 40 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,392 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arata’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Arata is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 新.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Arata
- Arata KodamaJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Arata SugiyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1980
- Arata WatanabeJapanese association football playerborn 1995
- Arata IzumiJapanese-born Indian association football playerborn 1982
- Arata IuraJapanese actor, model and fashion designerborn 1974
- Arata KasagiJapanese association football playerborn 1980
- Aonishiki ArataUkrainian professional sumo wrestlerborn 2004
- Arata FurutaJapanese actor, talent and radio personality (1965-)
- Arata FujiwaraJapanese long-distance runner (track and field), coachborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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