Tambu
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Tambu is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tambu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 62 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11 | — | 14 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | 11 | — | — |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)Tambu 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 English, Alternative form of taboo (“culturally forbidden”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pmf, a pointed bucket made of leaf sheaths of the sago palm, used to scoop up water for the washing out of sago flour
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nlg, set apart; forbidden, taboo; dedicated; sacred, holy; a priest; abominable, hateful, immoral
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In jmd, restrain, prevent, forbid
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tpi, forbidden, not allowed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-cet-pro, forbidden, taboo
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 163 | #16,308 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 62 | #38,989 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #10,113 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 11 | #134,717 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #10,572 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #165,471 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tambu have the most bearers?
- Tambu is most frequently recorded in India.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tambuThe 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, “Tambu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.