Tahmina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Тахмина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 5 more and Takhmina in PL Poland, GE Georgia, FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

• Turkish given name1.4K records spelled Tahmina5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Tähminä

• a separate given name124 records spelled Tahmina2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Pakistan

  Also written Tăḣmină

• Persian given name90 records spelled Tahmina4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Netherlands

  Also written Таҳмина

28 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●

Tahmina 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 Arabic, 43: wife of the famous Persian hero Rustam and mother of Sohrab

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tahmina Rajabovab. 1982TJTajikistani actress (born 1982)
• Tahmina Akefib. 1983AFDutch journalist
• Tahmina Niyazovab. 1989TJTajikistani singer
• Tahmina Kohistanib. 1989AFAfghan sprinter
• Tahmina Begumb. 1993GBBritish football referee (born 1993)
• Tahmina RahmanBDBangladeshi human rights defender

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tahmina?

We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Tahmina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Tahmina have the most bearers?

Tahmina is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled tahmina.

How common is Tahmina compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Tahmina is the 26th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Tahmina a male or female name?

Tahmina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.