Thind
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Thind is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 100K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 100Kfew records
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.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Punjabi.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thind 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Thind | 128 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Thind | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 820 | Thind | 119 |
| US United States | 662 | 1 in 502K | 1.1K | Thind | 208 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Thind | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Thind | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Thind | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Thind 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 Albanian, beak, nipple
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)- Bhagat Singh Thindb. 1892INIndian American writer and civil rights activist
- Kartar Singh Thindb. 1917INIndian botanist (1917-1991)
- Gurminder Thindb. 1984CAPlayer of American and Canadian football
- Suman ThindFIFinnish association football player
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,565 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 820 | #7,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 662 | #34,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 353 | #54,643 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Thind mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Thind have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 742 people named Thind in Canada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thind.
- How common is the name Thind?
- In the United States, the national register counted 662 people named Thind in 2010, about 1 in 502 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thind?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thindThe 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, “Thind”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.