Taï
surname · Latin script
Taï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 10,097 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Japanese 鯛 (たい).
- SISlovenia1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 33K
- SESweden1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
10,097 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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).
Cited for this meaning 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.
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
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.
- Which countries have the most people named Taï?
- 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. After it come Slovenia, Sweden, Brazil and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Taï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ta%C3%AFThe 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, “Taï” — ranked 2453rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.