TeM
org · Latin script
Meaning: Temba (northern Togo): name of a language; also Egyptian/English-Gypsy name senses
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
TeM is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Temba (northern Togo): name of a language; also Egyptian/English-Gypsy name senses
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
TeM 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 221 | TeM | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | TeM | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 587 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | 278 | — | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 25 | — | 1 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
TeM 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.
Plg. Temulis, Teminskis (žr.). Šaknies tem- kilm ė neaiški. Plg. liet. temti „darytis tam su; eiti tam syn" (D L K Ž ), temeti „aptem usiam , tam sybėj b ū ti“ (P. Skardžius, 1943, p. 523). B et plg. dar pvd. Tamšlis, Tamulis, Taminskas (žr.). T E M E R IU ŠA S Prn. P lg. (?) lenk. Temerc(z), Temerbasz (SSN O V 434)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Plg. Temelis (žr.)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In English, unclear in OCR
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In cau-tsz-pro, a k. of weed ("борщевник")
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In dra-nor-pro, to break; to miss
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Temistocle Agostinib. 1903ITnot in their usual nameItalian writer (1903-)
- Melanie Temb. 1949USAmerican writer (1949-2015)
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- What does the name TeM mean, and where does it come from?
- Temba (northern Togo): name of a language; also Egyptian/English-Gypsy name senses Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does TeM have the most bearers?
- TeM is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled TeM.
What do you want to know about TeM?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/temThe 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, “TeM”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.