Thiago

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Tiago in PT Portugal, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland and 3 more.

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 4 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◐

Thiago is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name45K records spelled Thiago11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Peru

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Thïago, Thiàgo, Thîàgô, Thiågo, Thiägo

• Russian given name1.5K records spelled Thiago13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Russia, Switzerland

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Tiago, Тиаго, Тьяго, Тхиаго, Tyago

• Japanese given name1.4K records spelled Thiago2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, Peru, United States

  Also written Thiägo

48 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●

Thiago is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Thiago (Tiago) är en spansk och portugisisk kortform av Santiago ’Sankt Jakob’ (→ Jakob), ett namn som också finns i Sverige.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 43 years between 1977–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Thiago Lacerdab. 1978BRBrazilian actor
• Thiago Mottab. 1982BRItalian-Brazilian association football player and manager
• Thiago Silvab. 1984BRBrazilian association football player
• Thiago Nevesb. 1985BRBrazilian professional football manager and former player
• Thiago Cionekb. 1986BRPolish association football player (born 1986)
• Thiago Pereirab. 1986BRBrazilian swimmer
• Thiago Alcántarab. 1991ESSpanish association football player
• Thiago Braz da Silvab. 1993BRBrazilian pole vaulter
• Thiago Almadab. 2001ARArgentine footballer
• Igor Thiagob. 2001BRBrazilian footballer (born 2001)

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 · 513 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thiago?

We estimate roughly 545 thousand people bear Thiago (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Thiago have the most bearers?

Thiago is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled thiago.

How common is Thiago compared with other names?

In Argentina, Thiago is the 197th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Thiago a male or female name?

Thiago 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 Thiago mean?

Recorded meaning: alternative spelling of Tiago; a male given name, equivalent to English James