Taiwan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: island nation, SE Asia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taiwan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
- 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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
island nation, SE Asia
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taiwan 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 571 | Taiwan | 61 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Taiwan | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Taiwan | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Taiwan | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | Taiwan | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 178 | — | — |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Taiwan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Taiwan (a partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands; official name: República da China)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, alternative form of Tchaj-wan:
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 571 | #17,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 178 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 170 | #27,587 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 148 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 130 | #32,051 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 126 | #16,014 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 80 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 78 | #17,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 68 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 42 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Taiwan mean, and where does it come from?
- island nation, SE Asia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Taiwan have the most bearers?
- Taiwan is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled taiwan.
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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, “Taiwan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.