Thị
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine middle name; wish for numerous descendants
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰi˨˩˨/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thị is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 167(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.4K
- USUnited States1 in 30K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #361 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)
≈590,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Thi in VN Vietnam, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Thĩ in FR France.
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)
feminine middle name; wish for numerous descendants
Sources 1
- Vietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thị 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #1 | ≈590,000 est. | ≈1 in 167 | listed | Thi | 267 |
| US United States | — | 11,169 | 1 in 30K | 14K | Thi | 166 |
| MY Malaysia | #503 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Thi | 20 |
| FR France | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 1.3K | Thĩ | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5,493 | 1 in 1.9K | 5.5K | Thi | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,845 | 1 in 2.1K | 2.8K | — | 1 |
| MO Macao | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Thị | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 110 | 1 in 3.2K | 110 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Thị is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Traditional female middle element; historically marks a woman's given name in premodern Vietnamese naming.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, yellow persimmon (gold apple), Diospyros decandra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: “thị” (氏) = họ dòng; chữ đệm chỉ nữ trong tên Việt truyền thống.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, common middle name for women
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
In Vietnamese, Chữ lót dùng nhiều nhất cho nữ.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shi Shucongnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 194726
- Shi Shucongnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 384444
- Shi Shucongnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 377796
- Shi Renzhinot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 377890
- Shi Shucongnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 379193
- Shi Shucongnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 379545
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Thị mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine middle name; wish for numerous descendants Recorded by Vietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37).
- How do you pronounce Thị?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰi˨˩˨/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Thị have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 592 thousand people named Thị in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thi.
- How common is the name Thị?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,169 people named Thị in 2020, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Thị compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thị is the most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thị?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%E1%BB%8BThe 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, “Thị” — the most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.