Taht
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Taht is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 159K
- SESweden≈1 in 1.4M
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Täht in EE Estonia, SE Sweden.
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taht 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.
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Taht 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 ang, past participle of tǣċan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, will, wish, desire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, throne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, wick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, TAHT, tahturi, s. n. (Înv.) 1. Reședință a unei subprefecturi sau a altei administrații locale. 2. Stație de poștă; poștă. 3. Tron împărătesc; scaun domnesc. [Var.: tact, taft s. n.]. ¶ TACT2 s. n. v. taht. ¶ TAFT s. n. v. taht.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #31,081 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Taht have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 191 people named Taht in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled täht.
- How common is the name Taht?
- In Finland, the national register counted 35 people named Taht, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Taht compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Taht is the 325th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taht?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tahtThe 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, “Taht” — the 325th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.