Thế
surname · Latin script
Meaning: position; posture
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰe˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thế is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 64K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 105K
- FIFinland1 in 111K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
3,178 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
18 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
position; posture
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thế 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 | 3,178 | 1 in 105K | 2K | — | 92 |
| SE Sweden | 160 | 1 in 64K | 160 | — | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 57 | 1 in 3.7M | 57 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 50 | 1 in 111K | 162 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 48 | 1 in 360K | 453 | — | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 35 | 1 in 168K | 35 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | 1 |
3,178 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Thế is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt chữ ‘世’ (thế), nghĩa là đời, thế hệ; chữ thứ mười sáu trong Đế hệ thi.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
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 Thế mean, and where does it come from?
- position; posture Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Thế?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰe˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Thế have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Thế, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Thế most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thế is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thế?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,178 people named Thế in 2020, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thế?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%E1%BA%BFThe 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, “Thế”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.