Thám

given name · Latin script

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

Thám is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Tham is the local pronunciation of the word for dharma in the area where the script is used, e.g. Thai ธรรม (tam), Lao ທຳ (tham) and Northern Thai ᨵᩢᨾ᩠ᨾ᩺/ธัมม์, all derived from Pali dhamma.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 310K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 175K
  • DKDenmark1 in 451K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,072 people, 2020

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tham in US United States.

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)

Tham is the local pronunciation of the word for dharma in the area where the script is used, e.g. Thai ธรรม (tam), Lao ທຳ (tham) and Northern Thai ᨵᩢᨾ᩠ᨾ᩺/ธัมม์, all derived from Pali dhamma. Tham script is a localisation of the phrase dharma script.

Sources 2

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thám 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.

Where Thám is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0721 in 310K1.4KTham61
DK Denmark131 in 451K8——
FI Finland81 in 696K54——
PL Poland81 in 4.8M12——
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

1,072 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Thám is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Tham, Thắm, Thäm

  • English given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tham, Thắm, Thầm, Thậm, Thấm

  • Russian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Malaysia, China

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тхам, Tham, Thắm, Thâm, Thấm

  • Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Malaysia, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tham, Thảm, Thâm, Thắm, Thàm

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Malaysia

    Also written Tham, Thắm, Thẩm

9 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)

Thám 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 kix, retaliate

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Thám mean, and where does it come from?
Tham is the local pronunciation of the word for dharma in the area where the script is used, e.g. Thai ธรรม (tam), Lao ທຳ (tham) and Northern Thai ᨵᩢᨾ᩠ᨾ᩺/ธัมม์, all derived from Pali dhamma. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary.
Is Thám a male or female name?
Thám is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Thám have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Thám, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tham.
Where is Thám most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thám is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Thám?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,072 people named Thám in 2020, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.

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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, “Thám”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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