Thim

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Pronunciation spelling of them

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/θɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Thim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 25K
  • DKDenmark1 in 45K

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈530 people, est.

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Pronunciation spelling of them.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thim 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.

Where Thim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈530 est.≈1 in 2.5M22Thim13
SE Sweden4011 in 25K401Thim30
MY Malaysia≈380 est.≈1 in 85K—Thim21
ML Mali≈290 est.≈1 in 68K—Thim1
US United States2831 in 1.2M284Thim128
DK Denmark1301 in 45K130—1
NO Norway421 in 130K42—4

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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Thim is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Thím

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Thĩm, Thím

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Thím

  • Finnish given name137 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Thailand, United States, Laos

    Languages: Finnish, Thai, Chinese

    Also written Teemu, ติ๋ม, ทุมมี, Tami, Теему

36 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Thim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mtq, lover

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Mizo, dark

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1700180019002000Adriaen Thim, b. 1720Cornelis Thim, b. 1754Ellen Thim, b. 1849József Thim, b. 1864Gunnar Thim, b. 1922Torben Thim, b. 1946Ansgar Thim, b. 1957Anna Thim, b. 1997

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)

FormalDear Mr Thim,
InformalHi Thim,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Thim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—401#2,275
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020284#73,555
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010283#69,392
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000274#67,317
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—130#4,189
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—42#29,089
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—22#3,845
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—14#99,951
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#52,036
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Thim mean, and where does it come from?
Pronunciation spelling of them. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Thim?
A machine transcription gives /θɪm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Thim have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 526 people named Thim in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thim.
Where is Thim most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thim is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Thim?
In Sweden, the national register counted 401 people named Thim, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.

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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, “Thim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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