Tinah

Name: Tinah: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tinah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common

IDIndonesia1 in 35K◐
MWMalawi1 in 1.4K
UGUganda1 in 52K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈6 ●
Sources: 65 ●
: 1 in 2.9M ◐

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Nordic Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tinah is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
ID Indonesia	—	2,560	91 rec.	—	listed	Tinah	51
MY Malaysia	—	654	216 rec.	—	—	Tinah	14
US United States	—	600	559 rec.	—	listed	Tinah	65
ZA South Africa	—	360	396 rec.	—	—	Tinah	11
MW Malawi	#144	299	0 rec.	—	—	Tinah	4
KE Kenya	—	242	82 rec.	—	—	Tinah	10
NG Nigeria	—	85	141 rec.	—	—	Tinah	13
GB United Kingdom	—	74	63 rec.	—	—	Tinah	13
AU Australia	—	49	46 rec.	—	—	Tinah	19
PH Philippines	—	32	27 rec.	—	—	Tinah	5
SG Singapore	—	22	36 rec.	—	—	Tinah	7
DE Germany	—	21	21 rec.	—	—	Tinah	10
ZM Zambia	—	18	3 rec.	—	—	Tinah	5
IQ Iraq	—	16	16 rec.	—	—	Tinah	2
TR Türkiye	—	13	13 rec.	—	—	Tinah	3
CA Canada	—	11	16 rec.	—	—	Tinah	6
RU Russia	—	10	0 rec.	—	—	Tinah	1
UG Uganda	—	10	24 rec.	—	—	Tinah	6
SA Saudi Arabia	—	7	1 rec.	—	—	Tinah	3
NL Netherlands	—	6	10 rec.	1 in 2.9M	6	Tinah	3
QA Qatar	—	6	6 rec.	—	—	Tinah	1
PG Papua New Guinea	—	—	4 rec.	—	1	—	2
IN India	—	—	—	—	6	—	—

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

Indonesian2.8K47%
English1.1K18%
Swahili74813%
Malay3436%
French2054%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Indonesian	2,773	47%
English	1,062	18%
Swahili	748	13%
Malay	343	6%
French	205	4%

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◐

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

Spanish given name872 records spelled Tinah3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Tináh
French given name231 records spelled Tinah3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France
Also written Tináh, Tinàh
a separate given name17 records spelled Tinah2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Ṭinah

29 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.

Evidence●

Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Tinah
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
IN India	Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls	—	6	#13,930
NL Netherlands	Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)	—	6	#30,678
PG Papua New Guinea	PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022)	—	1	#97
ID Indonesia	KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub)	—	—	—
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)	—	—	—

Reference works 1

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tinah?: We estimate roughly 6 people bear Tinah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Tinah have the most bearers?: Tinah is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled tinah.
How common is Tinah compared with other names?: In Malawi, Tinah is the 144th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
Is Tinah a male or female name?: Tinah 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.

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tinah” — the 144th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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