Tanah

loc · Latin script

Meaning: earth, soil, dirt (unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tanah is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

earth, soil, dirt (unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tanah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Tanah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8—9
CK Cook Islands—1——
AU Australia—1——

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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Tanah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Egypt

    Also written Țąńąh

28 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)

Tanah 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 Malay, ground

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

  • In zlm, land; state, country; surface of soil, especially with regard to ownership; surface of soil with regard to its character; soil itself and its character

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

  • In ban, ground, land, earth, soil (mainly as agricultural object, but also as building material, and as a political unit)

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

  • In kxd, soil (mixture of sand and organic material)

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

  • In iba, earth, soil, land, ground, country

    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)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Tanah mean, and where does it come from?
earth, soil, dirt (unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tanah have the most bearers?
Tanah is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Tanah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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