Thian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Hakka
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Uruguay (INE Uruguay): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ðjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thian is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.6K
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname from Hakka
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Thian | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 156 | Thian | 20 |
| US United States | — | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 165 | Thian | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Thian | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | #901 | 234 | 1 in 14K | 234 | Thian | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 50 | 1 in 346K | 50 | — | 1 |
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 — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Thian 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 odt, to grow, to thrive
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.
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2016 | 1.2K | #245 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2015 | 1.1K | #265 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2014 | 924 | #319 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2017 | 914 | #290 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2013 | 871 | #336 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 708 | #342 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2019 | 535 | #384 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 360 | #461 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 316 | #565 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2021 | 271 | #518 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 251 | #518 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 234 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Thian?
- A machine transcription gives /ðjan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Thian mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Hakka Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Thian a male or female name?
- Thian is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Uruguay (INE Uruguay): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Thian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Thian in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thian.
- How common is the name Thian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Thian in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Thian compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Thian is the 901st most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thian?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thianThe 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, “Thian” — the 901st most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.