Tamási

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tamási is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 271K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 364K
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 587K

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.

United States (measured from records)

282 people, 2010

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 271K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tamasi in CZ Czechia.

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)

Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Előzményét, a bibliai héber ’iker’ jelentésű !wat [teh ohm (teóm)] nevet a görög nyelvű Újszövetség a ’csodálatos’ jelentésű £ [thaum™sziosz] szóval hozta összefüggésbe, és a nevet © [Thom™sz] alakban írta le. Ezt vette át a keresztény világ (a középkorban Tomas), s ez került be a magyar névkincsbe a középkori hazai latin kiejtésnek megfelelően -s-sel. Majd az -o- > -a- szabályos nyíltabbá válása után Tamás lett a hangalakja. Ennek -i birtokjeles formája közvetlenül apai családnévvé válhatott. Jelentése ’Tamásé, Tamás nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Ugyanakkor ez a birtokjeles alak ’Tamásé, Tamás birtoka, faluja’ jelentéssel Tamási településnévvé lett Bihar, Fejér, Gömör, Nógrád, Somogy, Sopron, Szabolcs, Szepes, Tolna és Veszprém vármegyében. Ezek bármelyikéhez járulhatott az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képző és *Tamásii családnévvé vált. De a két -ii közül az egyik kiesett, és ugyancsak Tamási családnév lett belőle, de ez eredetre, származási helyre utalt. Tamás nevű településről nem tudunk a Történelmi Magyarországon, de összetételekben (Tamásfalva, Tamásháza, Tamáshida és Szenttamás) nagy számmal előfordult a Tamás településnév, és azok is megrövidülhettek, majd a rövidülés után -i képzővel családnévvé válhattak. Elterjedtsége: Az egész nyelvterületen elterjedt.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tamási 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.

Where Tamási is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2821 in 1.2M287—1
AR Argentina1681 in 271K168——
BR Brazil421 in 5M42——
ES Spain341 in 1.5M34——
NO Norway151 in 364K15—1
SE Sweden121 in 850K12——
CZ Czechia121 in 892K12Tamasi4
SK Slovakia≈9 est.≈1 in 587K—Tamási10

282 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tamási is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tamasi

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, Swahili

    Also written Tamasi, Tamaši

  • Romanian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Tamasi, Tamași, Tămași, Tămâși

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tamasi, Tamaşi, Tamaši

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Tamasi

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Tamaši, Tamasi, Тамаши, Tamashi

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Áron Tamási, b. 1897Gáspár Tamási, b. 1904János Tamási, b. 1921Lajos Tamási, b. 1923Eszter Tamási, b. 1938Zoltán Tamási, b. 1961Miklós Tamási, b. 1970Zsolt Tamási, b. 1975Erika Tamási, b. 1981Zsolt Tamási, b. 1990

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

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 Tamási mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi vagy helynévi eredetű, magyar családnév.
In which country does Tamási have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 282 people named Tamási, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tamási most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamási is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 271 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tamási?
In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Tamási in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Tamási”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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