Tamaş
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tamaş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
- 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)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)
136,497 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tamás in HU Hungary, SK Slovakia, RO Romania and 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)Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
Cited for this meaning 3
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tamaş 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 | — | 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; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Tamaş mean, and where does it come from?
- Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Tamaş have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 136 thousand people named Tamaş, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamás.
- Where is Tamaş most common?
- Tamaş is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tamaş?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 136,497 people named Tamaş in 2025, about 1 in 72 residents.
- How common is Tamaş compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Tamaş is the 29th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tama%C5%9FThe 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, “Tamaş” — the 29th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.