Tae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of tilt aftereffect
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈtaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tae is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 41K
- USUnited States1 in 59Kas Thai
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tae itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Initialism of tilt aftereffect.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #193 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 4 | Tae | 32 |
| KR South Korea | #895 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 10K | Tae | 198 |
| US United States | — | 5,623as Thai | 1 in 59K | 13K | Tae | 282 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 1 | Tae | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 8 | Tae | 45 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 2 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 120 | 1 in 85K | 211 | — | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 11 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Tae is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, Read 't'ii ； coll. tai. V the grasscloth nettle ； its fiber is used for cords and cloth : *tae ^ taing^ a grass- cloth shop ； ^"la'i * sidng^ made of grasS'Clbth-nettle.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a pleased look, a cheerful countenpleased, gratified
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Samoan, excrement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rar, to leak, to melt, to flow, to ooze, to trickle, to discharge
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In llu, to rise, ascend, get up, climb; to lift up; to exhume
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- André Dae Kimb. 1996CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor and writer
- Dae Won ParkKRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7653-686X)
- Dae Hong JeongKRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7869-5648)
- Dae Hyun LeeUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 10K | #86 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 372 | #58,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 316 | #59,769 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #9,781 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,900 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #50,650 |
| KP North Korea | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 4 | #41 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tae mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of tilt aftereffect. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tae?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tae a male or female name?
- Tae is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Tae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Tae in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tae.
- How common is the name Tae?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 120 people named Tae, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Tae compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Tae is the 193rd most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taeThe 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, “Tae” — the 193rd most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.