Bitar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɪtɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bitar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 265K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 2K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 3.8K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bitar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Bitar | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 1,493 | 1 in 142K | 1.5K | — | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Bitar | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Bitar | 38 |
| US United States | 1,257 | 1 in 265K | 1.5K | Bitar | 236 |
| SE Sweden | 488 | 1 in 21K | 488 | Bitar | 16 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Bitar | 6 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Bitar 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of bit (Etymologies 1 & 2)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite nominative plural of biti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite plural of bit
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)
- Omar al-Bitarb. 1879Palestinian politician (1880–1946)
- Wuhayb al-Bitarb. 1916JOPalestinian official and poet
- Luis Bitar Mahuadb. 1938ECEcuadorian plastic surgeon and judoka
- Sergio Bitarb. 1940CLChilean politician
- Jean Bitarb. 1948FIFinnish film director
- Damián Santiago Bitarb. 1963ARArgentinian bishop
- Valéry Bitarb. 1974LBLebanese priest and Carmelitan theologian (1974-)
- Gabriel Bitarb. 1998CACanadian soccer player
- Maher BitarUSUS government official
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,878 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,087 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 488 | #1,920 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Bitar?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɪtɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bitar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Bitar in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bitar.
- How common is the name Bitar?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,493 people named Bitar, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bitar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bitarThe 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, “Bitar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.