Tái
given name · Latin script
Meaning: of colors or shades that denote unhealthiness, defilement, fright, etc.; pale (of people's facial skin); rotten (of food)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tái is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 33K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 2.5K
- SESweden1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
10,097 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tai in US United States.
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(measured from records)
of colors or shades that denote unhealthiness, defilement, fright, etc.; pale (of people's facial skin); rotten (of food)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tái 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.
10,097 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Tái is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ko-pro, bamboo
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In kne, stool relief of the bowels; excrement; feces; dung; crotel; treadle; rust, rustiness
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 儓
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In akl, stool, feces; to defecate
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mtq, waterfall
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)
- Liu Taib. 1465Ming dynasty person CBDB = 132702
- Li Taib. 1503Ming dynasty person CBDB = 203311
- Lung Ying-taib. 1952TWTaiwanese writer, politician
- Liu TaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 132899
- Wang TaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 273957
- Zhang TaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 216000
- Wang TaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 227301
- Zhao TaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 317539
- Zhang TaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 222133
- Li TaiMing dynasty person CBDB=127976
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tái mean, and where does it come from?
- of colors or shades that denote unhealthiness, defilement, fright, etc.; pale (of people's facial skin); rotten (of food) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tái a male or female name?
- Tái is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tái have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Tái, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tai.
- Where is Tái most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tái is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tái?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,097 people named Tái in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A1iThe 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, “Tái”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.