Thet

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Test in US United States, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 5 more and Ted in SE Sweden, LA Laos.

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●

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◐

Thet is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name208 records spelled Thet2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Thēt

38 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●

Thet 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 gmq-osw, alternative spelling of þæt

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

• In zom, kill

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Notable people with this name●

• Myo Thet Zunb. 2003MMbadminton 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 · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thet?

We estimate roughly 58 thousand people bear Thet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Thet have the most bearers?

We estimate about 49 thousand people bear Thet in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled test.

Where is Thet most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thet is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Thet compared with other names?

In Myanmar (Burma), Thet is the 18th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.

Is Thet a male or female name?

Thet 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 Thet mean?

Recorded meaning: Pronunciation spelling of that, representing dialectal English.