Taha
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: mystic letters at the beginning of Surat Ta Ha (20:1)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tahˈa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.8K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
mystic letters at the beginning of Surat Ta Ha (20:1)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Taha is read(measured from records)
Taha is one spelling over 2 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.
- Turkish54%
Kur´an-ı Kerim'in yirminci surenin adı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic24%
mystic letters at the beginning of Surat Ta Ha (20:1)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Man; opening of the 20th sura of the Qur'an.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Qur'anic opening letters; prophetic name
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Taha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #756 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Taha | 78 |
| EG Egypt | #285 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Taha | 169 |
| TR Türkiye | #511 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Taha | 106 |
| MA Morocco | #163 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Taha | 103 |
| YE Yemen | #184 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Taha | 43 |
| SY Syria | #218 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Taha | 43 |
| US United States | — | 3,047 | 1 in 109K | 3K | Taha | 254 |
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. 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)
Taha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Taha är ett arabiskt namn, identiskt med de inledande bokstäverna i den tjugonde suran i Koranen.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft nach den Anfangsbuchstaben der zwanzigsten
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Taha al-Hashimib. 1888IQPrime Minister of Iraq (1888–1961)
- Taha Husseinb. 1889EGEgyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)
- Taha Muhie-eldin Maroufb. 1924IQIraqi politician (1924-2009)
- Taha Jabir Alalwanib. 1935IQacademic
- Taha Yassin Ramadanb. 1938IQIraqi politician (1938-2007)
- Abu Mohammad al-Adnanib. 1977SYnot in their usual nameformer official spokesman for IS (1977–2016)
- Taha Akgülb. 1990TRTurkish wrestler (born 1990)
- Taha Alib. 1998SESwedish footballer (born 1998)
- Taha Sönmezışıkb. 2006TRTurkish actor (born 2006)
- Taha Lemaiziactor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,247 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Taha?
- A machine transcription gives /tahˈa/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Taha mean, and where does it come from?
- mystic letters at the beginning of Surat Ta Ha (20:1) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Taha a male or female name?
- Taha is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Taha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 thousand people named Taha in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taha.
- How common is the name Taha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,047 people named Taha in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Taha compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Taha is the 756th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tahaThe 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, “Taha” — the 756th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.