Tamaš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Tamaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
- RSSerbia≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 88K
- ESSpain1 in 111K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
571 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tamaš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 571 | 1 in 583K | 827 | — | 10 |
| ES Spain | 452 | 1 in 111K | 452 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 195 | 1 in 1.1M | 195 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Tamaš | 14 |
| PL Poland | 146 | 1 in 262K | 173 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 62 | 1 in 88K | 356 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 53 | 1 in 159K | 53 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 32 | 1 in 132K | 32 | Tamaš | 16 |
571 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 32 | #17,903 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17 | — |
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 Tamaš 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 Tamaš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 571 people named Tamaš, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tamaš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 571 people named Tamaš in 2010, about 1 in 583 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tama%C5%A1The 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, “Tamaš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.