Thâm

given name · Latin script

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

Thâm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: deep; profound.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 310K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 175K
  • DKDenmark1 in 451K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,072 people, 2020

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tham in US United States.

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)

deep; profound

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thâm 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 Thâm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0721 in 310K1.4KTham61
DK Denmark131 in 451K8——
FI Finland81 in 696K54——
PL Poland81 in 4.8M12——
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

1,072 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Thâm is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tham, Thắm, Thầm, Thậm, Thấm

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Tham, Thām, Thẩm, Thấm, Thám

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tham, Thầm, Thắm, Thám, Thậm

  • Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Malaysia, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tham, Thảm, Thắm, Thám, Thàm

  • Greek given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Tham, Thẩm, Thắm

4 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Tan Yunxian, b. 1461Roman Tam, b. 1945Ti Lung, b. 1946Amy Tan, b. 1952Tan Dun, b. 1957Patrick Tam, b. 1969Chade-Meng Tan, b. 1971Shaun Tan, b. 1974Lewis Tan, b. 1987Tan Zhongyi, b. 1991
  • Tan Yunxianb. 1461CNnot in their usual namephysician during China's Ming Dynasty era
  • Roman Tamb. 1945CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer (1945-2002)
  • Ti Lungb. 1946CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
  • Amy Tanb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist
  • Tan Dunb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese composer
  • Patrick Tamb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer and actor
  • Chade-Meng Tanb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican software engineer
  • Shaun Tanb. 1974AUnot in their usual nameAustralian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker (born 1974)
  • Lewis Tanb. 1987GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor and martial artist
  • Tan Zhongyib. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese chess player

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 Thâm 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 Thâm mean, and where does it come from?
deep; profound Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Thâm a male or female name?
Thâm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Thâm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Thâm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tham.
Where is Thâm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thâm is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Thâm?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,072 people named Thâm in 2020, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.

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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, “Thâm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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