Taï

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Taï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Japanese 鯛 (たい).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 33K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.5K
  • SESweden1 in 60K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

10,097 people, 2020

Sources
369 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tai in US United States, HK Hong Kong.

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)

From Japanese 鯛 (たい).

Sources 5

  • The African book of names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Nordic Names
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Taï 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.

Where Taï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,0971 in 33K7.7KTai369
SI Slovenia—8571 in 2.5K890—6
SE Sweden—1701 in 60K170—11
BR Brazil—1331 in 1.6M133—3
DK Denmark—551 in 107K51—1
GY Guyana—71 in 107K7—3
HK Hong Kong#378———Tai96

10,097 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Taï is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Tai

  • Chinese given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan

    Also written Tai, Tài, Ta-I, Tại, Tải

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Taï mean, and where does it come from?
From Japanese 鯛 (たい). Recorded by The African book of names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
In which country does Taï have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Taï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tai.
Where is Taï most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Taï is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Taï?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,097 people named Taï in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
How common is Taï compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Taï is the 378th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.

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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, “Taï” — the 378th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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