Thee
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Objective and reflexive case of thou
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/thəə/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Thee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 47Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 180Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 760Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Obsolete spelling of Tee which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Thee is read
(measured from records)Thee is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
Objective and reflexive case of thou.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
bi, bié, a-bié, bima
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
- Malay10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Thee in Malay.
- German10%
Obsolete spelling of Tee which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Thee | 25 |
| DE Germany | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Thee | 47 |
| US United States | 314 | 1 in 1.1M | 338 | Thee | 158 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Thee | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Thee | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Thee | 12 |
| BB Barbados | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Thee | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Thee 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 kr, long life! bedngin, v. or bidngin I pay, remunerate. bedtema, s. paymaster. bell, s. razor. bengin , v. I teach : wu niro lukrdn behgl, I taught thee the
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In kr, good luck! drtmnoma, s. a military officer, subject to the Yerima. dsdm, s. fast: dsdm tsumgin, I keep a fast, I fast; ngumorl
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In sga, alternative spelling of thé: lenited form of tee (“hot”)
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)- Jürgen Theeb. 1900DEGerman politician (1900-1980)
- Marek Theeb. 1918NONorwegian political scientist
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Thee come from?
- Obsolete spelling of Tee which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Thee?
- In the etymology graph, Ith is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Thee?
- In Malay /thəə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Thee mean?
- In English, Objective and reflexive case of thou.
- In which country does Thee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 756 people named Thee in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thee.
- How common is the name Thee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 314 people named Thee in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Thee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theeThe 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, “Thee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.