Tieh
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tieh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.7M(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 240Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 990Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tieh 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 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Tieh | 16 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Tieh | 97 |
| CA Canada | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Tieh | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Tieh | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Tieh | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 986K | — | Tieh | 5 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Tieh is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, tax on farm produce. 91fJ0ri to turn one’s mind away from an original train of thought. to have a wandering mind, to have one’s mind turned away from a train of thought. n§91fil tax on farm produce
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In cdo, Interchanged with the last two: a covering or wrapper for a book, a satch- el; a decennium, or period of 10 years ； to pierce with a needle, to stitch : *(pwang tUk^ a satchel.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In Khmer, to be forcibly ejected (as from a vehicle in an accident); to be de flected from an original course
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Khmer, kind of wild vine
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tieh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 151 people named Tieh in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tieh.
- How common is the name Tieh?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people in Malaysia have Tieh as their first surname, about 1 in 235 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Tieh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiehThe 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, “Tieh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.