Tamtam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: post-1990 spelling of tam-tam
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Grenada, 2025
Tamtam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 113K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 781K
- INIndia1 in 17M
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)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
80 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)post-1990 spelling of tam-tam
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tamtam 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 | 80 | 1 in 17M | 80 | Tamtam | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | Tamtam | 3 |
| GD Grenada | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Tamtam | 10 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Tamtam | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Tamtam | 12 |
80 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)Tamtam 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 Italian, alternative spelling of tam-tam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ch, test, try out, sip, taste
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pyu, to taste with the lips
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ibl, to taste something
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In map-pro, smack the lips
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 192 | #14,526 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 80 | #33,092 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,898 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #23,065 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #222 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tamtam mean, and where does it come from?
- post-1990 spelling of tam-tam Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tamtam have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 80 people named Tamtam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamtam.
- Where is Tamtam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamtam is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 113 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tamtam?
- In India, the national register counted 80 people named Tamtam, about 1 in 17 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamtamThe 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, “Tamtam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.