Tatham
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Tatham’, Lancashire, meaning ‘Tata’s homestead’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtæθəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tatham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 328K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Tatham’, Lancashire, meaning ‘Tata’s homestead’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tatham 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Tatham | 1 |
| US United States | 1,015 | 1 in 328K | 1K | Tatham | 222 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 1.2K | Tatham | 119 |
| AU Australia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Tatham | 78 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Tatham | 24 |
| SG Singapore | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Tatham | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Tatham | 38 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Tatham 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 English, Lancs., so called from the OE personal name Tata (see Tate) + OE ham homestead. Vars.: Tatam, Tatem, Tatum.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Emma Tathamb. 1829GBBritish poet
- Charles Tathamb. 1854USAmerican fencer (1854–1939)
- Julie Tathamb. 1908USAmerican writer (1908–1999)
- David Tathamb. 1939GBBritish diplomat, governor and biographer
- Chuck Tathamb. 1963CACanadian screenwriter
- Joanne Elizabeth Tathamb. 1967GBBritish artist
- Reidun Tathamb. 1978CACanadian synchronized swimmer
- Patrick Tathamb. 1984CACanadian basketball player (born 1984)
- Tamara Tathamb. 1985CACanadian basketball player (born 1985)
- Alisha Tathamb. 1986CACanadian basketball player (born 1986)
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.2K | #5,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 979 | #24,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 940 | #27,194 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Tatham mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Tatham’, Lancashire, meaning ‘Tata’s homestead’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tatham?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtæθəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tatham have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Tatham in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tatham.
- Where is Tatham most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tatham is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tatham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,015 people named Tatham in 2010, about 1 in 328 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tathamThe 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, “Tatham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.