Temba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Gift
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/teᵐɓa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Temba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.6Mas Thambi(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 6.4M
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 26Kas Tambi
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 Temba 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 named Tambi, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tambi in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more.
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)Gift.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Temba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tambi | 15 |
| IN India | 804as Thambi | 1 in 1.6M | 804 | Tambi | 75 |
| US United States | 382as Tamba | 1 in 871K | 536 | Tambi | 51 |
| ES Spain | 205as Tamba | 1 in 244K | 205 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 688K | — | Tambi | 3 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 47 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 3 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Tambi | 6 |
| QA Qatar | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Tambi | 1 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 6 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Amani Tembab. 1980TZRap and Hip hop musician from Tanzania
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 246 | #709 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 61 | #39,404 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #187,649 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Temba mean, and where does it come from?
- Gift. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Temba?
- A machine transcription gives /teᵐɓa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Temba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Tambi in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Temba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Temba is densest in Poland — about 1 in 6.4 million people — even though Malaysia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Temba?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6 people named Temba in 2026, about 1 in 6.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Temba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tembaThe 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, “Temba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.