Tat
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tat is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Hong Kong it is the 81st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from ahd. tat 'deed, work'; hard to separate from TAG and DIET.
- HKHong Kong1 in 1.5K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 21K
- THThailand1 in 33K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈577 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 190 ●
- 1 in 123K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled ตาสี in TH Thailand, Tasu in IN India and Tasi in PH Philippines.
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●
from ahd. tat 'deed, work'; hard to separate from TAG and DIET
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | — | 3,436 | 1.7K rec. | — | #205,538 | ตาสี | 55 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,102 | 3.6K rec. | — | — | Tat | 44 |
| HK Hong Kong | #81 | 2,435 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Tat | 69 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,519 | 2.2K rec. | — | 1 | Tat | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 884 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Tat | 56 |
| DE Germany | — | 506 | 937 rec. | — | 1 | Tat | 56 |
| US United States | — | 501 | 18K rec. | 1 in 664K | 1.8K | Tat | 190 |
| CA Canada | — | 482 | 800 rec. | — | — | Tat | 58 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 454 | 11 rec. | — | — | Tat | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | 442 | 602 rec. | — | — | Tat | 58 |
| CN China | — | 223 | 154 rec. | — | — | Tat | 30 |
| AT Austria | — | 46 | 58 rec. | — | — | Tat | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese21K37%
- English15K27%
- Malay7.5K13%
- Chinese4.9K9%
- Spanish1.1K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 21,097 | 37% |
| English | 15,499 | 27% |
| Malay | 7,514 | 13% |
| Chinese | 4,949 | 9% |
| Spanish | 1,132 | 2% |
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●
Tat 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 English, Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, lang., people, Caucasus Mts.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, zu ahd. tat "Tat, Werk". Von TAG und DIET kaum zu trennen T a d e b e r t : s. das häu- figere Dagobert bei TAG T h e t e r : Thäter, Däther (x Diether) T e d a l d : Thadewald (x Theudoald) Kf. D a d o: in neueren N. von Thiado (s. DIET) kaum zu trennen. Hier- her etwa: Dad|e, eisen, Tatschek Tebart(iz) Ihuber; Da,dd, Dahte, Datz(ert), Dazer, Tatz(e>)l
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In otk, the basic meaning of this word, which is translated very variously, seems to have been not so much 'stranger', which is 1 ya:t, as 'an alien', prob. a subject, but in any case inferior
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In German, deed, action
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
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●
- Meng Dab. 150CNnot in their usual nameState of Cao Wei general (died 228)
- Xu Dab. 1332CNnot in their usual nameMing Dynasty founding general, father of Empress Xu of Yongle Emperor (1332-1385)
- Li Dab. 1890CNnot in their usual nameChinese Marxist philosopher (1890–1960)
- Chen Dab. 1892CNnot in their usual nameChinese sociologist
- Da Xiangb. 1900CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Huang Dab. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese economist (1925–2023)
- Chen Dab. 1937CNnot in their usual nameChinese nuclear scientist (1937-2016)
- Da Chenb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1962–2019)
- Yang Danot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 162128
- Li Danot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 175114
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 50 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tat?
- We estimate roughly 577 people bear Tat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tat have the most bearers?
- Tat is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled ตาสี.
- How common is Tat compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Tat is the 81st most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
- Is Tat a male or female name?
- Tat 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 Tat mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ahd. tat 'deed, work'; hard to separate from TAG and DIET
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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, “Tat” — the 81st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.