Ti
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ISO 3166-2:CH code of Tessin (canton)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ti is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 379K
- SESweden1 in 408K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tí in VN Vietnam, US United States.
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)
ISO 3166-2:CH code of Tessin (canton)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ti 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #595 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tí | 85 |
| US United States | — | 878 | 1 in 379K | 471 | Tí | 61 |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 19 | 1 in 909K | 13 | — | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | 7 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Ti 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 otk, there is no doubt that this word exists; from the context ‘continuously’ or the like
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In och, God, ancestor, honorific for deceased fathers
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In dag, future tense indicator occurring between pronoun and verb or regular future tense particle, and giving an added sense of indefiniteness: O ti di. He may eat. O ni ti di. He may sometime eat ti-ra v. 1. to give KO qma n ti ‘dedicate’ 2. to do something for (in ti barina ‘hurt, give (cause) another’s stead). harm’ ti pini ‘donate’ ‘give gifts’ Singular cl. Definition Comment
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In dag, 1. in order to O chaq ni o ti nya. He went in 2. may or might, (when ‘ni’ order to see. He went that he is used to introduce a clause the subject of which is the same as that of the principal verb, ‘ti’ is inserted between the subject and verb of this clause to give the meaning: ‘in order to’, or ‘may’) might see
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In cdo, T'ae \ A coll. word : to push with the feet ； to kick oft*: t'aiP 2)''woi ^ to kick off the bed clothes (in sleep); t^ae^ fk'wi^ to push it away with the feet.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Zhang Zhib. 1150not in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 106563
- Nguyễn Tri Phươngb. 1800VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese general
- Haidi Zhangb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer, politician with physical disability
- Zhang Dib. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese judoka
- Ti Westb. 1980USAmerican film director, screenwriter and film editor
- Chen Tib. 1983TWTaiwanese tennis player
- Yang Dib. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Zhang Chib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Wu Dib. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1993)
- Zhang Chib. 2002CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 471 | #13,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 407 | #13,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 273 | #76,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 245 | #78,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225 | #78,838 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,395 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #15,282 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Ti mean, and where does it come from?
- ISO 3166-2:CH code of Tessin (canton) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Ti in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tí.
- How common is the name Ti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 878 people named Ti in 2020, about 1 in 379 thousand residents.
- How common is Ti compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Ti is the 595th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ti?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiThe 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, “Ti” — the 595th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.