Tiram
loc · Latin script
Meaning: oyster (mollusk)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tiram is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Yemen than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 17Kas תירם(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
- INIndia1 in 102M
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 Tiram 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.
- Yemen (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6M (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 named תירם, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled תירם in IL Israel, IN India, YE Yemen and 1 more.
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)
oyster (mollusk)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiram 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Tiram is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlm, oyster, Ostrea spp.; varieties include the edible oyster that adheres to mangrove roots and fishing stakes (Ostrea parasitica); the rock oyster (Ostrea imbricate); and the pearl oysters Ostrea ephippium, and Ostrea placentiforme)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of tirar
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #55,133 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #105,144 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #150,067 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tiram mean, and where does it come from?
- oyster (mollusk) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tiram have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 601 people named תירם in Yemen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tiram most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tiram is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 3.6 million people — even though Yemen holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tiram?
- In India, the national register counted 13 people named Tiram, about 1 in 102 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiramThe 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, “Tiram”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.