Tahay
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/taai/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tahay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Tahay is also written ตาเห in Thai.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 239K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 390Kfew records
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 Tahay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 named ตาเห, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tahay in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled ตาเห in TH Thailand.
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.
How to pronounce Tahay
- Spanish:/taai/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Tahay is found
(measured from records)Tahay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | register #216,678 | ตาเห | 43 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tahay | 15 |
| PH Philippines | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 393K | — | Tahay | 4 |
| US United States | 142 | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | Tahay | 43 |
| BE Belgium | 49 | 1 in 239K | 49 | Tahay | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 5as Tahe | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cyrille Tahayb. 1939BEBelgian politician
- Freddy Tahayb. 1942BEcyclist
- Jean-Pierre Tahayb. 1965BEBelgian metal construction
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tahay?
- In Spanish /taai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tahay?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named ตาเห in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Guatemala, Philippines, United States and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tahay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 142 people named Tahay in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tahay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tahayThe 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, “Tahay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.