Given name & surname
Tais
“one who is bound; the bond”
Tais is a variant of Taisa. One Greek interpretation is “one who is bound; the bond.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tais is a variant of Taisa. One Greek interpretation is “one who is bound; the bond.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tais is a variant of Taisa. An origin associated with Taisa is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tais through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 409
- 0 boys · 409 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 95 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 95 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 658 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tais’s family of names
In Polish usage, Tais has a conventional equivalent in the English form Thais. Tais has a related form in Taisa. In Greek usage, Tais as a surname is a transliteration of Τάις.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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