Tangente

surname · Latin script

Meaning: tangent (trigonometric function)

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

Tangente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 509K
  • CACanada≈1 in 17M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tangent (trigonometric function)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tangente 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 Tangente is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,200 est.≈1 in 91KTangente27
ID Indonesia≈530 est.≈1 in 509KTangente1
US United States≈7 est.≈1 in 48MTangente13
CA Canada≈2 est.≈1 in 17MTangente5
GB United Kingdom——Tangente2

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.

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)

Tangente is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, tangential (merely touching)

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

  • In Latin, ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of tangēns

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

  • In Italian, tangent, tangential

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

  • In Latvian, Pieskare (1)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tangente 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 Tangente mean, and where does it come from?
tangent (trigonometric function) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tangente have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Tangente in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tangente.
How common is the name Tangente?
Mondonomo estimates about 1,200 people in the Philippines have Tangente as their first surname, about 1 in 91 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Tangente”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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