Tigist
org · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tigist is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 109K
- NONorway≈1 in 128K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ትግስት in ET Ethiopia.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tigist 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.
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tigist Moredab. 1968ETEthiopian long-distance runner
- Tigist Tufab. 1987ETEthiopian athletics competitor
- Tigist Girmab. 1993ETEthiopian athlete (1993-)
- Tigst Assefab. 1996ETnot in their usual nameEthiopian middle-distance runner
- Tigist Ketemab. 1998ETEthiopian athlete
- Tigist Mengistub. 2000ETEthiopian Paralympic athlete
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,580 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 146 | #6,016 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 94 | #8,934 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 82 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 77 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 75 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 69 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 65 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 62 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tigist have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Tigist in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ትግስት.
- How common is the name Tigist?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,686 people named Tigist in 2020, about 1 in 197 thousand residents.
- How common is Tigist compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Tigist is the 361st most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tigist?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tigistThe 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, “Tigist” — the 361st most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.