Tâm
given name · Latin script
Meaning: the heart (humanity or compassion)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tə˨˥m/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tâm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 393(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 27K
- MOMacao≈1 in 28K
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)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 393 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tam in VN Vietnam, US United States.
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)
the heart (humanity or compassion)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tâm 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 | #40 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 393 | listed | Tam | 199 |
| US United States | — | 12,308 | 1 in 27K | 13K | Tam | 178 |
| SE Sweden | — | 213 | 1 in 48K | 213 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 100 | 1 in 56K | 132 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 58 | 1 in 298K | 206 | — | 12 |
| MO Macao | #918 | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Tâm | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 8 | 1 in 44K | 8 | — | — |
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: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
- Wang Xinb. 1501not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 203250
- Nguyễn Đức Tâmb. 1920VNpolitician
- Qi Xinb. 1926CNnot in their usual name2nd wife of Xi Zhongxun and mother of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping
- Hồ Tài Huệ Tâmb. 1948VNprofessor of history at Harvard University, USA
- Đỗ Thị Huyền Tâmb. 1966VNVietnamese businessman and politician
- Tâm Đoanb. 1977CACanadian-Vietnamese singer
- Mỹ Tâmb. 1981VNVietnamese singer-songwriter
- Hoàng Minh Tâmb. 1990VNVietnamese footballer
- Trịnh Đức Tâmb. 1992VNVietnamese bicycle racer
- Wang Xinnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 314594
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #19,086 |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
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 Tâm mean, and where does it come from?
- the heart (humanity or compassion) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tâm?
- A machine transcription gives /tə˨˥m/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Tâm a male or female name?
- Tâm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tâm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 251 thousand people named Tâm in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tam.
- How common is the name Tâm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,308 people named Tâm in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Tâm compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Tâm is the 40th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tâm?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A2mThe 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, “Tâm” — the 40th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.