Tauna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təunə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tauna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 560K(measured from records)
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 22K
- BRBrazil1 in 343K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
618 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tauna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 618 | 1 in 343K | 618 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 594 | 1 in 560K | 593 | Tauna | 186 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 531K | — | Tauna | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Tauna | 9 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Tauna | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Tauna | 1 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #227 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Tauna | 1 |
618 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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)
Tauna 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 esu, that one (the stationary thing near the listener)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, essive singular of tau
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, to chew
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tauna Vandewegheb. 1960USAmerican swimmer, Olympic athlete, college volleyball player
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 618 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 601 | #11,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 593 | #18,210 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 556 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 485 | #14,597 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 302 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 254 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 243 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 62 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 27 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Tauna?
- A machine transcription gives /təunə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tauna a male or female name?
- Tauna is a female 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.
- In which country does Tauna have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 618 people named Tauna, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tauna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 618 people named Tauna in 2022, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
- How common is Tauna compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Tauna is the 227th most common given name of 1,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tauna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taunaThe 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, “Tauna” — the 227th most common given name in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.