Tamse

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/təms/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tamse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 10M(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 120K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 298K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈910 people, est.

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tamse 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 Tamse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈910 est.≈1 in 120K—Tamse7
IN India1291 in 10M129Tamse43
US United States≈79 est.≈1 in 4.2MlistedTamse14
NL Netherlands581 in 298K58Tamse2
GB United Kingdom≈9 est.≈1 in 7.4M7Tamse9

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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

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

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tamše, Tamşe

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tamše

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tamše

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, South Africa

    Also written Tamše

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Tamsé

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Syria

    Also written Tamşe, Tamše

24 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)

Tamse 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 unm, perhaps, maybe

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ms Tamse,
InformalHi Tamse,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Tamse?
A machine transcription gives /təms/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Tamse have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 907 people named Tamse in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamse.
How common is the name Tamse?
In India, the national register counted 129 people named Tamse, about 1 in 10 million residents.

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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, “Tamse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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