Tais

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Thais in BR Brazil, FR France, VE Venezuela and 19 more, Таис in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Taís in NO Norway and Таїс in UA Ukraine.

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●

Attested across 13 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◐

Tais is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name124K records spelled Tais17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Australia, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Taís, Taïs, Tại'S, Tài'S, Tai'S

• Danish given name1.0K records spelled Tais11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Taís, Taïs

• Hindi given name504 records spelled Tais4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Taís

• a separate given name433 records spelled Tais3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Taís, Taïs

• Turkish given name152 records spelled Tais7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye

  Also written Taiş, Taís, Taïs

39 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●

Tais is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, plural of tal

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Vendaje

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Latvian, in those; locative plural masculine of tas

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In tet, woven material, cloth, clothing

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In slu, sarong of native material

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 34 years between 1961–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tais Tengb. 1952NLDutch fiction author (born 1953)
• Taís Araújob. 1978BRBrazilian actress and TV presenter
• Giorgia Pratesb. 1978BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian photojournalist, artist and activist
• Djamila Ribeirob. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian philosophist and feminist
• Taís Lopesb. 1990BRBrazilian journalist
• Taís Pinab. 2004PTPortuguese judoka
• Taïs Bourab. 2005FRgymnast
• Morgana Tais StreckBRBrazilian carcinologist

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 · 364 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tais?

We estimate roughly 249 thousand people bear Tais (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Tais have the most bearers?

We estimate about 225 thousand people bear Tais in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled thais.

Where is Tais most common?

Tais is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 939 people carrying it.

How common is Tais compared with other names?

In Brazil, Tais is the 77th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Tais a male or female name?

Tais 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.

What does the name Tais mean?

Recorded meaning: A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.