Tais

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree

  • Brazil (IBGE): listed as female
  • United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
  • France (INSEE, 2016): listed as female
  • Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024

/tajʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain

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Tais is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 120,051 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.

  • BRBrazil1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 28K
  • UYUruguay1 in 32K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

120,051 people, 2022

Record sources
160 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

Locally spelled Taís in AO Angola.

How to pronounce Tais

  • Portuguese:/tajʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/tais/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tais 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.

Where Tais is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#393120,0511 in 1.8K203KTais160
US United States—6581 in 506K643Tais127
AO Angola—≈630 est.≈1 in 60K—Taís3
CL Chile—≈600 est.≈1 in 33K2Tais32
AR Argentina—≈550 est.≈1 in 83K81Tais48
DK Denmark—2101 in 28K206——
PY Paraguay—≈160 est.≈1 in 43K—Tais8
UY Uruguay#7091071 in 32K109Tais15

120,051 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Tais is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Taís, Taïs, Tai'S, Tại'S, Tài'S

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, Belgium, United States

    Also written Taïs, Taís, Taîs, ́tais

  • Danish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Peru

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Taís, Taïs

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Taís

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Taïs, Taís

  • Portuguese given name168 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, France, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Thais, Thaís, Thaïs, Таис, Таіс

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Tais 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 Portuguese, plural of tal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Vendaje

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Latvian, in those; locative plural masculine of tas

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tet, woven material, cloth, clothing

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In slu, sarong of native material

    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)
1950196019701980Tais Teng, b. 1952Taís Araújo, b. 1978Djamila Ribeiro, b. 1980
  • Tais Tengb. 1952NLDutch fiction author (born 1953)
  • Taís Araújob. 1978BRBrazilian actress and TV presenter
  • Djamila Ribeirob. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian philosophist and feminist

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)
InformalOlá Tais,Hi Tais, (English)

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)

57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Tais?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /tajʃ/; in Spanish /tais/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people named Tais?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 120 thousand people named Tais, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tais. After it come United States, Angola, Chile and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Tais most common?
Tais is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Tais mean, and where does it come from?
A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Tais a male or female name?
Tais is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2016): listed as female; Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
How common is the name Tais?
In Brazil, the national register counted 120,051 people named Tais in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Tais compared with other names?
In Brazil, Tais is the 393rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tais” — ranked 259th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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