The

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Thế in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 1 more, Thé in NL Netherlands, GB United Kingdom, Thę in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia and Ťhë in MA Morocco, IN India.

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 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Other names spelled this way◐

The is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name52K records spelled The54 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, South Africa

  Also written Thë, Thé, Thế, Thē, Thê

• Spanish given name13K records spelled The9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Algeria, Morocco

  Also written Thë, Thé, Thè, Thê, Thế

• French given name8.1K records spelled The60 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Thé, Thë, Thê, Thè, Thę

• a separate name7.6K records spelled The11 spellings in the group

  Also written Thé, Thé̂, Thể, Thè, Thế

• Indonesian given name6.8K records spelled The22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Indonesia, Tunisia

  Also written Thé, Thë, Ťhë, Thê, Ťhĕ

• Hindi given name5.6K records spelled The27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Algeria

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Ťhe, Ťhë, Ťhě, Thé, Țhe

• Arabic given name2.8K records spelled The41 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya

  Also written Thë, Thé, Thę, Thê, Ťhë

75 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.

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●

• Herly Theb. 1926IDIndonesian badminton player
• Seno Theb. 1963NLbadminton player
• The Ai Lingb. 1972IDIndonesian badminton 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 113 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name The?

We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear The (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does The have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.0 thousand people bear The in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled thế.

Where is The most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, The is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

What does the name The mean?

Recorded meaning: either from the medieval personal name Ares, which is probably of Gmc origin, or else from a medieval personal nam eAria or Anus, which is probably of Romance origin. Cogn.: Port.: Aires.