Thiago

Locally spelled Tiago in PT Portugal, AO Angola.

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.

• Portuguese:/tiɐɡo/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Spanish:/t̪ʝaɣo/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Thiago, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Santiago
• Diego
• Rafael
• Mateo
• Emiliano

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Thiago is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Peru, United States

  Also written Thïago, Thiagó, Thiàgo, Thiâgö, Thîàgô

• Russian given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Russia, Switzerland

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Tiago, Тиаго, Тьяго, Тыяга, Tyago

• Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, Peru, United States

  Also written Thiägo

48 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.

Thiago is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Thiago (Tiago) är en spansk och portugisisk kortform av Santiago ’Sankt Jakob’ (→ Jakob), ett namn som också finns i Sverige.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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.

• Thiago Mottab. 1982BRItalian-Brazilian association football player and manager
• Thiago Silvab. 1984BRBrazilian association football player
• Thiago Cionekb. 1986BRPolish association football player (born 1986)

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

77 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 42 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Which countries have the most people named Thiago?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 455 thousand people named Thiago, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thiago. After it come Portugal, Argentina, Ecuador and Angola; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Thiago most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thiago is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 437 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How do you pronounce Thiago?

It depends on the language: in Portuguese /tiɐɡo/; in Spanish /t̪ʝaɣo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Thiago mean, and where does it come from?

alternative spelling of Tiago; a male given name, equivalent to English James Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Thiago?

In the etymology graph, Tiago, Diogo and Didacus are forms of the same name in other languages.

How common is the name Thiago?

In Brazil, the national register counted 454,565 people named Thiago in 2022, about 1 in 466 residents.

How common is Thiago compared with other names?

In Brazil, Thiago is the 35th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

Is Thiago a male or female name?

Thiago is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Spain (INE) and Peru (RENIEC, 2022), among others.