Tanum
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tanum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 16K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.1M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
352 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tan-Um in PH Philippines.
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
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)
Tanum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 352 | 1 in 16K | 352 | Tanum | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Tan-Um | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Tanum | 24 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Tanum | 7 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
352 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Tanum 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 msk, to plant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nij, fill it with water! (imperative of _danum_)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tsg, to plant (something); to bury (something)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, Deprecated, pre-2014 spelling of tanom.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tsg, planting
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)
- Johan Grundt Tanumb. 1891NONorwegian publisher
- Ingar Tanumb. 1924NONorwegian publisher
- Anne Carine Tanumb. 1954NONorwegian jurist and entrepreneur
- Lars Tanumb. 1956NOresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 352 | #4,226 |
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
- In which country does Tanum have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 352 people named Tanum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanum.
- Where is Tanum most common?
- Tanum is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tanum?
- In Norway, the national register counted 352 people named Tanum, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tanum?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tanumThe 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, “Tanum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.