Tā

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚃

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tā is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 30K(measured from records)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 36K
  • FIFinland1 in 37K

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.

United States (measured from records)

8,017 people, 2010

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ta in DZ Algeria.

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)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚃

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tā 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 Tā is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,0171 in 41K9.2K—39
DZ Algeria#373≈1,200 est.≈1 in 36K—Ta10
BR Brazil—3351 in 632K335——
NO Norway—1821 in 30K182—1
SE Sweden—1771 in 58K177—2
FI Finland—1511 in 37K151—1

8,017 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tā is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Vietnamese surname119 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: Vietnamese, English, German

    Also written Tạ, Tá, T-A, Tae, Ta

  • French surname43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria

    Also written Ta, Tà, Tã, Tâ, Tä

  • Chinese surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, China, Algeria

    Also written Ta, T'A, Tà, Tä, Tã

  • Italian surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Chile

    Languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ta, T'A, Tá, Tà, Tã

  • a separate name14 spellings in the group

    Also written Ṭā, Tá, Ţa, Ṭa, Ta

  • a separate name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico

    Also written Ta, Tă, Tạ, Tã, Tà

  • Malay surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Ta, Tạ, Ta', Tà, Tä

6 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)

Tā is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In sit-pro, ford, pass over

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In pi, feminine nominative/accusative plural of ta (“those”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In fj, to chop (with knife or axe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In rar, to kill, to put to death, to slay, to overcome, to destroy, to slaughter; an assault, sudden attack; to beat or dash out, as in bailing a canoe; to pound or beat, as in washing clothes with a stick or stone on a flat surface

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In wyy, (of solid object) be cut by chopping or slashing; chopped, hacked, axed, adzed, slashed; be carved, shaped by cutting; be built, made (of boat, keel)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

  • Ta Baiperson, CBDB ID = 388157

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tā under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tā mean, and where does it come from?
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚃 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tā have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Tā, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tā most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tā is densest in Norway — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tā?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,017 people named Tā in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
How common is Tā compared with other names?
In Algeria, Tā is the 373rd most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tā” — the 373rd most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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