Tião
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tião is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: branch, to be extending branches, extend, long.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 86K
- AOAngola≈1 in 187K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tiao in US United States, PH Philippines, CN China.
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)
branch, to be extending branches, extend, long
Sources 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tião 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Tiao | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Tiao | 12 |
| BF Burkina Faso | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 86K | listed | — | — |
| AO Angola | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Tião | 4 |
| BR Brazil | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1.4K | Tião | 30 |
| US United States | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 145 | Tiao | 115 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)
- Tião Oleirob. 1914BRBrazilian musician (1914-2016)
- Tião Macaléb. 1926BRBrazilian actor (1926–1993)
- Tião Motoristab. 1927BRBrazilian composer
- Tião Netob. 1931BRBrazilian bassist and double bassist (1931–2001)
- Tião Macaléb. 1936BRBrazilian association football player (1936-1972)
- Tião D'Ávilab. 1944BRBrazilian actor
- Tião Bocalomb. 1953BRBrazilian politician
- Tião Mirandab. 1957BRBrazilian politician
- Tião Vianab. 1961BRBrazilian politician
- Tião Medeirosb. 1983BRBrazilian politician
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.3K | #7,666 |
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
- What does the name Tião mean, and where does it come from?
- branch, to be extending branches, extend, long Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Tião a male or female name?
- Tião is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tião have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Tião in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiao.
- How common is the name Tião?
- In the United States, the national register counted 145 people named Tião in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tião?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ti%C3%A3oThe 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, “Tião”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.