Tamás
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Thomas
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɒmaːʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamás is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 72(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 13K
- DEGermany≈1 in 126K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)
136,497 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tamas in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria.
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 male given name, equivalent to English Thomas
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamás 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #29 | 136,497 | 1 in 72 | 136K | Tamás | 149 |
| US United States | — | 840 | 1 in 396K | 827 | Tamas | 146 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 1 | Tamas | 117 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Tamás | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 51 | Tamas | 65 |
| SK Slovakia | #215 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Tamás | 39 |
| IS Iceland | — | 18 | 1 in 19K | 18 | — | — |
136,497 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Szaszb. 1920USnot in their usual nameHungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)
- Thomas Sebeokb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican semiotician (1920-2001)
- Tom Felleghyb. 1921HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-Italian actor, producer, writer and novelist
- Tamás Vásáryb. 1933HUHungarian pianist and conductor (1933–2026)
- Tommy Ramoneb. 1949HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American drummer (1949–2014)
- Tamás Sulyokb. 1956HUHungarian lawyer, president of Hungary (2024–2026), member of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (2014–2024)
- Tamás Darnyib. 1967HUHungarian swimmer
- Tamás Priskinb. 1986SKassociation football player
- Tamás Kádárb. 1990HUassociation footballer
- Willi Orbánb. 1992DEnot in their usual nameGerman Hungarian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 136K | #9 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 1.6K | #4 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2001 | 1.4K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2000 | 1.4K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2002 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2003 | 1.2K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2004 | 1.2K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2006 | 1.2K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2005 | 1.2K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2007 | 1.1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2008 | 1K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2009 | 899 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Tamás a male or female name?
- Tamás 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 does the name Tamás mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Thomas Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tamás have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 136 thousand people named Tamás, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamás.
- Where is Tamás most common?
- Tamás is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Tamás?
- In the etymology graph, Thomas, Tomas and Tommy are forms of the same name in other languages; Tomi is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Tamás?
- A machine transcription gives /tɒmaːʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- How common is the name Tamás?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 136,497 people named Tamás in 2025, about 1 in 72 residents.
- How common is Tamás compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Tamás is the 29th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tamás?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tam%C3%A1sThe 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, “Tamás” — the 29th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.