Tih
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of their Imperial Highnesses
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tih is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 399K
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of their Imperial Highnesses.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tih is read(measured from records)
Tih is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
Initialism of their Imperial Highnesses.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Malay20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tih in Malay.
- wuu11%
Drop (water)
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Stumble
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Pinch
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Thump
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Fall
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
- French8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tih in French.
- Vietnamese5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tih in Vietnamese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tih 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Tih | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | Tih | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Tih | 2 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Tih | 45 |
| DE Germany | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Tih | 11 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Tih | 6 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #92,394 |
| 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
- What does the name Tih mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of their Imperial Highnesses. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tih have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 476 people named Tih in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tih.
- How common is the name Tih?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 6 people named Tih in 2008, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tihThe 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, “Tih”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.