Tamas
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tamas is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Greek; twin.
- HUHungary1 in 72◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 1.4K
- RORomania1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈138K ●
- Sources
- 214 ●
- 1 in 72 ◐
across 11 countries
53K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Tamás in SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia, RS Serbia and 1 more and Tamasi in NO Norway, IT Italy.
Meaning & origin●
Greek; twin
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #14 | 136,497△ | 26K rec. | 1 in 72 | 136K | Tamas | 214 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,239 | 2.6K rec. | — | listed | Tamas | 113 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,246 | 2.4K rec. | — | 1 | Tamas | 112 |
| RO Romania | #400 | 1,923 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Tamas | 58 |
| SK Slovakia | #210 | 1,699 | 58 rec. | — | — | Tamás | 37 |
| IN India | — | 998 | 696 rec. | — | 52 | Tamas | 28 |
| US United States | — | 827 | 14K rec. | 1 in 402K | 827 | Tamas | 193 |
| AU Australia | — | 767 | 1K rec. | — | 1 | Tamas | 59 |
| AT Austria | — | 722 | 401 rec. | — | 51 | Tamas | 67 |
| BE Belgium | — | 713 | 769 rec. | — | 12 | Tamas | 33 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 323 | 251 rec. | — | 53 | Tamas | 41 |
| CA Canada | — | 300 | 589 rec. | — | 5 | Tamas | 43 |
Roughly 136K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 72). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian2M99%
- English6.3K1%
- German3.4K1%
- Hindi2.4K1%
- Spanish1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 2,008,278 | 99% |
| English | 6,342 | 1% |
| German | 3,386 | 1% |
| Hindi | 2,374 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,193 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tamas 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 English, One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tvx, elder
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 143 |
| 2000 | 140 |
| 2001 | 141 |
| 2002 | 144 |
| 2003 | 140 |
| 2004 | 138 |
| 2005 | 143 |
| 2006 | 146 |
| 2007 | 160 |
| 2008 | 181 |
| 2009 | 191 |
| 2010 | 193 |
| 2011 | 193 |
| 2012 | 197 |
| 2013 | 196 |
| 2014 | 201 |
| 2015 | 203 |
| 2016 | 201 |
| 2017 | 197 |
| 2018 | 197 |
| 2019 | 199 |
| 2020 | 193 |
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●
- Thomas Szaszb. 1920USnot in their usual nameHungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)
- Thomas Sebeokb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican semiotician (1920-2001)
- Tamaz Gamkrelidzeb. 1929GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian academic (1929–2021)
- Tamás Vásáryb. 1933HUHungarian pianist and conductor (1933–2026)
- Tommy Ramoneb. 1949HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American drummer (1949–2014)
- Tamás Sulyokb. 1956HUHungarian lawyer, president of Hungary (2024–2026), member of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (2014–2024)
- Tamás Darnyib. 1967HUHungarian swimmer
- Tamás Priskinb. 1986SKassociation football player
- Tamás Kádárb. 1990HUassociation footballer
- Willi Orbánb. 1992DEnot in their usual nameGerman Hungarian footballer
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●
Attested in 54 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 827 | #14,130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 674 | #35,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 571 | #38,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 526 | #39,378 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 452 | #8,694 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 452 | #8,684 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 356 | #3,161 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 316 | #85 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 238 | #4,640 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 195 | #37,537 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 193 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 163 | #10,596 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 137 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tamas?
- We estimate roughly 138 thousand people bear Tamas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tamas have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 136 thousand people bear Tamas in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tamas.
- Where is Tamas most common?
- Tamas is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 people carrying it.
- How common is Tamas compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Tamas is the 14th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Tamas a male or female name?
- Tamas is a male 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 Tamas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Greek; twin
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tamas” — the 14th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.