Tanti
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tænti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tanti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 36K(measured from records)
- MTMalta≈1 in 9.4K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 36K
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 Tanti 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
37,305 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ตันติ in TH Thailand.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tanti 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #421 | 37,305 | 1 in 36K | 37K | Tanti | 97 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | — | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Tanti | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 333K | 22 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 348K | #207,096 | ตันติ | 37 |
| MT Malta | #457 | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Tanti | 21 |
| FI Finland | — | 30as Tantu | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
37,305 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Tanti is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, ellipsis of tantī pretiī (“of such a price”) (of money) worth as much, so much, valued so highly (as...)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, accusative/instrumental singular of tante
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, masculine plural of tanto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, tent, small tarpaulin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, auntie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, aunt
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)
- Frank Tantib. 1949AUAustralian politician
- Gaetano Tantib. 1956MTMaltese trade unionist
- Tony Tantib. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player
- Julien Tantib. 1988FRFrench television presenter
- Noel TantiMTMaltese writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 37K | #392 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 984 | #114 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- How do you pronounce Tanti?
- A machine transcription gives /tænti/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Tanti have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Tanti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanti.
- How common is the name Tanti?
- In India, the national register counted 37,305 people named Tanti, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Tanti compared with other names?
- In India, Tanti is the 421st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tantiThe 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, “Tanti” — the 421st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.