Thiès
loc · Latin script
Thiès is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Thiès (a city in western Senegal).
- USUnited States1 in 78K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 128K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 205K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Thiès itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
4,240 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Thies in US United States, BE Belgium.
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)
Thiès (a city in western Senegal)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thiès 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,240 | 1 in 78K | 4.2K | Thies | 63 |
| BR Brazil | 221 | 1 in 958K | 221 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 135 | 1 in 128K | 556 | — | 5 |
| SN Senegal | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Thiès | 4 |
| PL Poland | 53 | 1 in 722K | 30 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 41 | 1 in 205K | 41 | — | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 36 | 1 in 326K | 36 | Thies | 6 |
4,240 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Paul Thièsb. 1958FRFrench writer
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 1 sources across 0 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 Thiès mean, and where does it come from?
- Thiès (a city in western Senegal) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Thiès have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Thiès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thies.
- Where is Thiès most common?
- Thiès is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thiès?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,240 people named Thiès in 2010, about 1 in 78 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/thi%C3%A8sThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Thiès”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.