Thalès
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thalès is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
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
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
37,326 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thales in BR Brazil, US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 more.
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)
고대 그리스의 철학자 7현인 중의 한 사람(전 ?640～?546).
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thalès 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 | 37,326 | 1 in 5.7K | 37K | Thales | 4 |
| US United States | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 296 | Thales | 12 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Thales | 2 |
| ES Spain | 40 | 1 in 1.3M | 40 | — | — |
| CM Cameroon | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Thales | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
37,326 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thalesb. 650TRancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
- Thalis Theodoridisb. 1790GRnot in their usual nameGreek revolutionary
- Thalis Michaelidesb. 1927CYnot in their usual nameCypriot politician
- Thalis StathopoulosGRnot in their usual nameGreek writer and translator
- Thalis TsirimokosGRnot in their usual nameGreek politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 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
- Is Thalès a male or female name?
- Thalès is a male 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 Thalès have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Thalès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thales.
- Where is Thalès most common?
- Thalès is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thalès?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 37,326 people named Thalès in 2022, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thal%C3%A8sThe 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, “Thalès”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.