Th

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Th is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CNChina≈1 in 1.3Kas Tao(inferred from the name graph)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 2Kas Teh
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 5.5Kas Tao

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Th itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100,000 named Tao, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
338 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TaoLatin(measured from records)
เตThai(measured from records)
투어Hangul(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tao in US United States, VN Vietnam, CN China and 4 more and Teh in MY Malaysia.

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)

recorded in Korean

同 为 回 异 体 字 ,或 为 回 姓 分 族 ,以 别 回 姓 ,或 即 回 姓 , 见 《 姓 名 掌故 》(252,401) 。

Sources 1

  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Th 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 Th is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Tao174
VN Vietnam#265≈18,000 est.≈1 in 5.5KlistedTao101
MY Malaysia—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Teh123
ID Indonesia—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 17KlistedTao78
US United States—4,759as Tao1 in 70K6KTao338
TW Taiwan—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 11K—Tao80
HK Hong Kong#425≈930 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Tao59
SV El Salvador—≈500 est.≈1 in 13K—Tao5

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the id-github-names register. 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)

Th is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ťh, Ťĥ, T̸̯͕͇̲̅̆̔̏̕͡ḣ̷, ́th

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written T-H

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written T-H

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ťh

  • a separate surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Germany, Vietnam, Netherlands

    Also written T-H, T̢̺̯̣͙̠̰̰͉̒̀̑͆́͗͜͝͝͠͝h̡, Tḥ, Ťĥ, Th໋

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong, China

    Also written T-H

56 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)

Th is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Welsh, The twenty-sixth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called èth and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by T and followed by U.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, The twenty-ninth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In rom, The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In njm, The twenty-third letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, A digraph in Irish orthography

    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)

Attested in 13 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Th
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000133#120,330
ID IndonesiaKPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

In which country does Th have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Tao in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Th?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,759 people named Tao in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
How common is Th compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Th is the 265th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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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, “Th” — the 265th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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