Thami
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: NPHC 2021, 2021
/θəmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thami is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal1 in 926(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 28K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 171K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 926 (inferred from the name graph)
32,743 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thami 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.
32,743 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 33K | #55 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 607 | #7,982 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 128 | #162 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 35 | #33,255 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Thami?
- A machine transcription gives /θəmi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Thami have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Thami, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thami.
- Where is Thami most common?
- Thami is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 926 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thami?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 32,743 people named Thami in 2021, about 1 in 926 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thamiThe 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, “Thami”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.