Tiago

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Thiago in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PE Peru and 18 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 5 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◐

Tiago is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name395K records spelled Tiago7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Tïâgô, Tïagö

• French given name114K records spelled Tiago7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Tïago, Tiagõ, Tíago, Tîago, Tiagö

• Russian given name1.1K records spelled Tiago13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Russia, Switzerland

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Thiago, Тиаго, Тьяго, Тхиаго, Tyago

• Arabic given name970 records spelled Tiago5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, United States, Peru, Spain

  Also written Tîâgô, Tìâgò, Ťīägo

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●

Tiago is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Diminutif de Santiago; origine espagnole, « saint Jacques ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Portugais/espagnol, forme de Jacques; hebreu via Iacobus.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In French, Forme portugaise de Santiago/Jacques, du hébreu Ya'aqov.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In German, in den i98oer-Jahren aus dem Spa­ nischen entlehnter männl. Vom., Kurzform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1982–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tiago Monteirob. 1976PTPortuguese professional racing driver
• Tiago Mendesb. 1981PTPortuguese footballer and manager
• Tiago Camilob. 1982BRBrazilian judoka
• Tiago Pradob. 1984BRBrazilian association football player
• Tiago Splitterb. 1985BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1985)
• Bebéb. 1990PTnot in their usual namecap verde footballer
• Tiago Ilorib. 1993GBPortuguese-English association football player
• Tiago Alvesb. 1993BRBrazilian association football player (born 1993)
• Rui Silvab. 1994PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1994)
• Tiago Djalób. 2000PTportoguese football 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 · 547 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tiago?

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

In which country does Tiago have the most bearers?

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

How common is Tiago compared with other names?

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

Is Tiago a male or female name?

Tiago 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 Tiago mean?

Recorded meaning: James (twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible)