Tagai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/təɡaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tagai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14M(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 233Kas Tagay
- DEGermany≈1 in 504Kas Tagay
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 Tagai 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14M (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 named Tagay, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tagay in PH Philippines, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tagai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Tagay | 16 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 504K | — | Tagay | 37 |
| US United States | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | listed | Tagay | 54 |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Tagay | 7 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Tagay | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Tagai | 8 |
| PL Poland | 2as Tagay | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Tagai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Tagai, son of a Pelym prince. 1594.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of tagar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, imperative of taga
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #393,477 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Tagai?
- A machine transcription gives /təɡaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tagai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 469 people named Tagay in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tagai?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Tagay in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tagai?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tagaiThe 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, “Tagai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.