Tëë
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tëë is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Tee, from Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ) and 戴 (Tì). Doublet of Ty.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 850(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.5K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 845 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tee in US United States, MY Malaysia, PH Philippines and 3 more and Te'E in SB Solomon Islands.
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)- EnglishTee(measured from records)
- Hokkien鄭／郑Tīⁿ(measured from records)
From English Tee, from Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ) and 戴 (Tì). Doublet of Ty.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tëë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #272 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 845 | — | Tee | 114 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tee | 33 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Tee | 89 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tee | 41 |
| SG Singapore | #217 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Tee | 110 |
| US United States | — | 1,557 | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Tee | 315 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 9K | listed | — | 8 |
| SB Solomon Islands | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Te'E | 1 |
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. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tëë mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Tee, from Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ) and 戴 (Tì). Doublet of Ty. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Is Tëë a male or female name?
- Tëë 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 Tëë have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Tëë in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tee.
- How common is the name Tëë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,557 people named Tëë in 2010, about 1 in 214 thousand residents.
- How common is Tëë compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Tëë is the 272nd most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%AB%C3%ABThe 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, “Tëë” — the 272nd most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.