Thi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Thu in PE Peru, EC Ecuador and Thị in MO Macao.

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 17 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◐

Thi is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.6M records spelled Thi27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, China

  Also written Thị, Thi̜, Thì, Țhị, Thỉ

• English given name315K records spelled Thi17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Thị, Thì, Thí, Ťhï, Țhï

• a separate given name201K records spelled Thi7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China

  Also written Thị, Thi̥, Thi̜, Thỉ, Thī

• French given name57K records spelled Thi12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

  Also written Thị, Thì, Thî, Thį, Țhį

• Czech given name24K records spelled Thi8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Thị, Thì, Ťhĩ, Ťhī, Thį

• Finnish given name17K records spelled Thi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Thị, Thï

• Polish given name16K records spelled Thi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Thị

• Danish given name14K records spelled Thi15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Iceland

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic

  Also written Thị, Thí, Thì, Thï, Thī

81 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●

Thi 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 Swedish, Thi är det vanligaste vietnamesiska mellannamnet för kvinnor och betyder ’kvinna’. Se även den manliga motsvarigheten → Van.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In cdo, the hair bound in a knot as a a steel yard weight, a pestle, a hammer, to beat, to pound, to a bald head, blunt, hairless, bare; in colloquial very, extremely

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In ko-pro, fish (a suffix in fish names)

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In pi, vocative singular of thī (“woman”)

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

• In Danish, for (coordinating conjunction introducing an explanation)

  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.

Over time●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 55 years between 1945–2005. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nguyễn Chánh Thib. 1923VNSouth Vietnamese commander (1923-2007)
• Nguyễn Đình Thib. 1924VNVietnamese writer (1924-2003)
• Lam Quang Thib. 1932VNSouth Vietnamese commander
• Coralie Trinh Thib. 1976FRFrench pornographic actress
• Minh Tuyếtb. 1976VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
• Hồ Ngọc Hàb. 1984VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer and model
• Mai Thi Nguyen-Kimb. 1987DEGerman chemist, science journalist and television presenter
• Lâm Vỹ Dạb. 1989VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actress
• Quách Thị Lanb. 1995VNVietnamese athlete
• Huỳnh Thị Thanh Thủyb. 2002VNVietnamese beauty pageant titleholder

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 · 384 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thi?

We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Thi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Thi have the most bearers?

Thi is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thi.

How common is Thi compared with other names?

In Vietnam, Thi is the most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.

Is Thi a male or female name?

Thi 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 Thi mean?

Recorded meaning: poetry