Tamai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do termo alpino tamar/tambro; refere-se a pastor ou hab
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/təmaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 641K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- BRBrazil1 in 830K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 641K (inferred from the name graph)
476 people
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do termo alpino tamar/tambro; refere-se a pastor ou hab. de Tamai
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(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)
- Michiko Tamaib. 1923JPJapanese educator
- Jiro Tamaib. 1959JPJapanese writer
- Takeshi Tamaib. 1960JPJapanese mangaka
- Hiroshi Tamaib. 1964JPJapanese seiyū
- Kenji Tamaib. 1971JPJapanese composer and arranger
- Shin Tamaib. 1990JPJapanese Go player
- Shiori Tamaib. 1995JPJapanese singer
- Rikuto Tamaib. 2006JPJapanese diver
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 482 | #252 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 476 | #9,534 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 255 | #30,152 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 218 | #90,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 211 | #88,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 187 | #91,404 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 71 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Tamai?
- A machine transcription gives /təmaɪ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Tamai mean?
- Recorded meaning: do termo alpino tamar/tambro; refere-se a pastor ou hab.
- In which country does Tamai have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.