Tanhum
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tanhum is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Tanhum is also written תנחום in Hebrew.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 87Kas תנחום(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tanhum itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 named תנחום, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est., as תנחום
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tanhum in other scripts: Hebrew and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled תנחום in IL Israel, PL Poland, LV Latvia 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tanhum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 73 | תנחום | 16 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | תנחום | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | — | — | תנחום | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | תנחום | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | תנחום | 3 |
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: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present). 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)- Tanḥum ben Joseph, of Jerusalemb. 1220IL13th century Biblical scholar who lived in Palestine
- Tanhum Cohen-Mintzb. 1939ILIsraeli basketball player (1939–2014)
- Tanhum Avgarb. 1946ILHebrew punctuator (vowelizer), poet (1946-2015)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tanhum a male or female name?
- Tanhum 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 Tanhum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 people named תנחום in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tanhum?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in Israel have תנחום as their first given name, about 1 in 87 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Tanhum?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tanhumThe 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, “Tanhum” — ranked 19228th in Israel (CBS Israel). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.