Táy

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Táy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh тай (tai), Chuvash тиха (tih̬a), тӑйха (tăjh̬a).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 192K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 143K
  • NONorway1 in 182K

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)

1,736 people, 2010

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tay in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

Derivation of Táy: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Táy
  1. Old Anatolian Turkish[script(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Turkic[Term?](measured from records)

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh тай (tai), Chuvash тиха (tih̬a), тӑйха (tăjh̬a).

Sources 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Táy 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.

Where Táy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,7361 in 192K2KTay66
ES Spain721 in 695K72—5
BE Belgium571 in 206K57—3
NL Netherlands501 in 346K50Tay5
CH Switzerland451 in 187K45—1
FI Finland391 in 143K39—1
NO Norway301 in 182K30—3

1,736 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Táy is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Guatemala, Singapore

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tay, Tây, Ťåý, Taý, Täy

  • English surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tay, Taey, Tây, Tày, Taÿ

  • Chinese given name168 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Vietnam, China, Thailand

    Languages: Chinese, English, Vietnamese

    Also written Tao, เต, Th, The, Teh

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Táy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mtq, to sleep

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Táy under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Táy mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh тай (tai), Chuvash тиха (tih̬a), тӑйха (tăjh̬a). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
Is Táy a male or female name?
Táy 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 Táy have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Táy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tay.
Where is Táy most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Táy is densest in Finland — about 1 in 143 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Táy?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,736 people named Táy in 2010, about 1 in 192 thousand residents.

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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, “Táy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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