Tacitus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tacitus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 288Kas Tacite(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2Mas Tacite
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4Mas Tacite
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tacitus itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 288K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 named Tacite, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est., as Tacite
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tacite in FR France.
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)
A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tacitus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 288K | 60 | Tacite | 89 |
| AR Argentina | 37as Tacite | 1 in 1.2M | 37 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6as Tacite | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 15M | listed | — | — |
| UG Uganda | — | — | listed | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the wgnd-ug-names register; the babynamen-king-2020 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)
Tacitus 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 English, Roman historian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| UG Uganda | WGND 2.0 — Uganda given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tacitus mean, and where does it come from?
- A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tacitus a male or female name?
- Tacitus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Tacitus?
- In the etymology graph, Tacito and Tácito are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tacitus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 235 people named Tacite in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tacitus?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 37 people named Tacite, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tacitusThe 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, “Tacitus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.