Thiesen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic surname from Thies < Matthias
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈθisən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thiesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 11K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 83K
- BRBrazil1 in 95K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
2,224 people
Reference-verified
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic surname from Thies < Matthias
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thiesen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,224 | 1 in 95K | 2.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 565 | 1 in 589K | 631 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 530 | 1 in 11K | 530 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 156 | 1 in 111K | 156 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 66 | 1 in 83K | 66 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | — |
2,224 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Finn Thiesenb. 1941NONorwegian linguist and translator
- Peter Thiesenb. 1952DEGerman author
- Henrik Vincent Thiesenb. 1975DKDanish film editor
- Mette Thiesenb. 1981DKDanish politician
- Rodrigo Thiesenb. 1986BRBrazilian footballer
- Josephine Thiesenb. 1999DEGerman actress
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,425 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 631 | #37,855 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 607 | #35,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 565 | #39,004 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 530 | #802 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 156 | #13,078 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #21,648 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,700 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Thiesen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic surname from Thies < Matthias Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Thiesen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθisən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thiesen have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Thiesen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Thiesen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thiesen is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thiesen?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,224 people named Thiesen, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thiesenThe 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, “Thiesen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.