Té

Locally spelled Te in BE Belgium, FR France, MA Morocco.

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.

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Té is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

• French56%

  The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese11%

  nonstandard form of até

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Arabic9.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Té in Arabic.

• Vietnamese8.3%

  to trip; to fall, to fall over

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish6.2%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Té in Spanish.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Té is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name39 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

  Also written Te, Tê, Te', Tè, T̶e̶

• Dutch given name47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium, United States, New Zealand

  Languages: Dutch, German, English

  Also written Te, Te', T-E, Tê, Tè

• Arabic surname19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Syria

  Also written Tè, Tê, Ťë, Ťe, Ťễ

• a separate name31 spellings in the group

  Also written T̶e̶, Tè, Tệ, Tė, Tễ

• Polish surname15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Czechia

  Languages: Polish, Czech

  Also written Te, Tė, Tę, Tế, Ťe

• a separate name5 spellings in the group

  Also written Tẻ, ́te, Ťé, Te

• a separate name9 spellings in the group

  Also written Tè̂, Tē, Tế, Tề, Té̂

12 further groups 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.

Té 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 Lao, v. point out the road (lit.); indicate the way (figs). 2 (CN bor. edible duckweed; Hydrilla verticillata Pr. or Enhydrias angustipetala Ridl. (Vidal) - nagcay bot. small plants floating en the water, Azolla, Lemna. (V. idal)

  as a word·Lao-English Dictionary

• In cdo, to shell off, to scale, (cdifing-té) - té- bidh $i BE {R to scale plastered walls

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In men, little; as, 10 té, leave a little, a little is wanting

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

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.

• Di Shunb. 1183not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104386
• Di Congb. 1206not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104385
• Di Jiab. 1223not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104384
• Di Zeb. 1229not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104387
• Di Youb. 1983CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
• Emiliano Téb. 1983GWGuinea-Bissauan footballer
• Di Zijianb. 2001CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
• Di Yuanqiannot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 117916
• Di Yunnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 128499
• Di Pengnot in their usual namepolitician

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Té mean, and where does it come from?

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Té?

In the etymology graph, Tetera is a form of the same name in other languages.

In which country does Té have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Té, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Té most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Té is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 200 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Té?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,246 people named Té in 2010, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.