Téma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to look at something or someone, to watch, to ogle
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Téma is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ghana.
- GHGhana
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tema in GH Ghana, US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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)
to look at something or someone, to watch, to ogle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Téma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | — | — | Tema | 5 |
| US United States | — | 321 | Tema | 140 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 20 | Tema | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 47 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 29 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 24 | — | — |
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 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Téma 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 Hungarian, theme, topic, subject
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, topic, theme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, nine
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, neuf
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Croatian, 1. predmet, osnova, glavna misao (rasprave, govora, umjetničkog djela i sl.) 2. predmet koji treba pismeno obraditi 3. glazb. dio skladbe koji je melodijska, harmonijska i ritmička cjelina i služi kao osnova za varijacije 4. poznati dio rečenice, onaj dio na kojem nije težište 5. pov. vojno-administrativna jedinica u Bizantu od 7. st. [ Dalmatinska tema ]; temat
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Téma mean, and where does it come from?
- to look at something or someone, to watch, to ogle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Téma a male or female name?
- Téma 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 Téma have the most bearers?
- Téma is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled tema.
What do you want to know about Téma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A9maThe 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, “Téma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.