Thiến

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to castrate (remove the testicles of)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Thiến is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 65K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 40K
  • SESweden1 in 40K

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)

5,150 people, 2020

Sources
135 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Thien in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

to castrate (remove the testicles of)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thiến 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.

Where Thiến is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,1501 in 65K4.4KThien135
SE Sweden2541 in 40K254—8
NL Netherlands1521 in 114K94Thien16
FI Finland1391 in 40K258—3
DK Denmark611 in 96K49——

5,150 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; 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Thiến is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States

    Also written Thien, Thiên, Thiện

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Thiến under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Thiến mean, and where does it come from?
to castrate (remove the testicles of) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Thiến a male or female name?
Thiến 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 Thiến have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Thiến, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thien.
Where is Thiến most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thiến is densest in Finland — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Thiến?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,150 people named Thiến in 2020, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thi%E1%BA%BFn

The 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, “Thiến”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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