Italian: from the Germanic personal name Tata,
Tada.Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city): Parsi name,
probably from Gujarati tat ‘father’ (Sanskrit tata).Albanian and Greek (Tatas): nickname from Albanian
tatë ‘father’, ‘daddy’.Turkish and Greek: nickname
for a stammerer, from Turkish and Arabic ta’ta’ ‘stammer’.Polish: nickname from Polish tata ‘papa’, ‘daddy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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