Tamai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do termo alpino tamar/tambro; refere-se a pastor ou hab (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/tɐ̃w̃aj/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Tamai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 476 people, counted by Instate.
- ARArgentina1 in 641K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- BRBrazil1 in 830K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 641K (inferred from the name graph)
476 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 Tamai
- Portuguese:/tɐ̃w̃aj/(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)do termo alpino tamar/tambro; refere-se a pastor ou hab. de Tamai
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where the surname Tamai is found
(measured from records)Tamai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 476 | 1 in 2.8M | 476 | Tamai | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 255 | 1 in 830K | 255 | — | — |
| US United States | 211 | 1 in 1.6M | 218 | Tamai | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 71 | 1 in 641K | 71 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
476 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tamai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Tongan, father
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ashihei Hinob. 1907JPnot in their usual nameJapanese writer (1907-1960)
- Masao Tamaib. 1908JPJapanese cinematographer (1908-1997)
- Shiori Tamaib. 1995JPJapanese singer
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tamai?
- In Portuguese /tɐ̃w̃aj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Tamai mean?
- Recorded meaning: do termo alpino tamar/tambro; refere-se a pastor ou hab.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tamai?
- In India, the national register counted about 476 people named Tamai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamai. After it come Brazil, United States, Argentina and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tamai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamai is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 641 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tamai?
- In India, the national register counted 476 people named Tamai, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamaiThe 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, “Tamai” — ranked 9534th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.