Thin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE þynne ‘thin, lean, slender’; first attested Thomas Thin 1218 AssL
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʰin˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 21K
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE þynne ‘thin, lean, slender’; first attested Thomas Thin 1218 AssL
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | #285 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Thin | 84 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 110K | listed | Thin | 45 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Thin | 40 |
| US United States | — | 595 | 1 in 559K | 349 | Thin | 37 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Thin | 21 |
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: the wgnd-vn-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the id-github-names register; the mm-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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Thin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, tévé or teve; very thin, teve-teve ; thin and short, magonye
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, thin (OE pynne). Vars.: Thynn(e).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Lao, 1. v. drink a solution. of opium pesidoe 2. v. swallow. 3. v. have a snack,
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In enm, alternative form of þin (“thy”)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ma Thin Wab. 1940MMbadminton player
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).
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 349 | #18,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 246 | #18,182 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | Myanmar romanized given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | WGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Thin mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE þynne ‘thin, lean, slender’; first attested Thomas Thin 1218 AssL Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Thin?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰin˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Thin a male or female name?
- Thin 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 Thin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Thin in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Thin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 595 people named Thin in 2020, about 1 in 559 thousand residents.
- How common is Thin compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thin is the 285th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thinThe 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, “Thin” — the 285th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.