Tam-Is

surname · Latin script

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

Tam-Is is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: taksa za prženje kave.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 231K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 301K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 44K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

397 people, 2007

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tamis in PH Philippines, AR Argentina, US United States and 2 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)

taksa za prženje kave

Sources 2

  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tam-Is 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 Tam-Is is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands3971 in 44K397Tamis19
PH Philippines≈360 est.≈1 in 301K—Tamis17
AR Argentina1971 in 231K197Tamis28
US United States≈150 est.≈1 in 2.3MlistedTamis105
PY Paraguay≈43 est.≈1 in 169K—Tamis8
GY Guyana41 in 188K4—1

397 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Tam-Is is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Netherlands

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tamis

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands, United States, Philippines

    Also written Tamis

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Also written Tamis

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Italy

    Also written Tamis

5 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tam-Is is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Cebuano, sweet

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tam-Is 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 Tam-Is mean, and where does it come from?
taksa za prženje kave Recorded by Nordic Names and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
In which country does Tam-Is have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 397 people named Tam-Is, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamis.
Where is Tam-Is most common?
Tam-Is is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tam-Is?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 397 people named Tam-Is in 2007, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.

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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, “Tam-Is”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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