Täht
surname · Latin script
Meaning: letter (of the alphabet)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Täht is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 159K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.4Mfew records
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Taht in US United States, FI Finland, CA Canada.
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)letter (of the alphabet)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Täht 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #325 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 248 | Täht | 19 |
| US United States | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Taht | 87 |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | Taht | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Taht | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Täht | 4 |
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: the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Täht 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 vep, for, for the purpose of, intended for
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karl Tähtb. 1896EEEstonian photographer (1896-1958)
- Reinhold Tähtb. 1896EEEstonian military personnel and police officer (1896-1942)
- Jüri Tähtb. 1930EEEstonian cellist (1930-2022)
- Toomas Tähtb. 1948EEEstonian mathematician and mountaineer (1948-2003)
- Dave Tähtb. 1965USAmerican network engineer and Internet activist (1965-2025)
- Karin Tähtb. 1969EEEstonian psychologist (born 1969)
- Toomas Tähtb. 1977EEEstonian actor (born 1977)
- Robert Tähtb. 1993EEEstonian volleyball player (born 1993)
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 248 | #179 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 196 | #298 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Täht mean, and where does it come from?
- letter (of the alphabet) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Täht have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 344 people named Täht in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled täht.
- How common is the name Täht?
- In Finland, the national register counted 35 people named Täht, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Täht compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Täht is the 325th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A4htThe 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, “Täht” — the 325th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.