Given name & surname · also Hungarian

Bata

“duck”

Bata is a surname from Hungarian, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in English and Old English.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Bata goes back to Arabic بَطَّة, meaning “duck.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Bata comes from Hungarian, and ultimately from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Hungarian Bata, from Czech Baťa, from Tagalog Bata, from Arabic بَطَّة (“duck”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Bata’s family of names

In English usage, Bata as a surname was borrowed from the Czech form Baťa. In Greek usage, Bata as a surname is a transliteration of Μπάτα.

Walk Bata’s family in the name graph

BataΜπάταBaťa

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Bata

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Similar names

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Arabic

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Italian

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Arabic

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Arabic

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Arabic

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Arabic

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Arabic

Betül

“virgin”

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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