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Meaning of the nameTayse

Tayse is a spelling of the name Taíse.

Meaning

The meaning of Tayse is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
1,394
Rank in Brazil
#6,589
Median age
29 years
2010 Census
1,045
people

Tayse in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Tayse, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (633 people).

1,391 women 0 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Tayse is most common

States with the highest share of people named Tayse in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Alagoas 0.003%
  2. Santa Catarina 0.003%
  3. Pará 0.002%
  4. Bahia 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Santa Catarina1870.003%
Pará1360.002%
Bahia1190.001%
Alagoas1020.003%
Paraíba970.002%
Pernambuco960.001%
São Paulo920.000%
Maranhão860.001%
Rio Grande do Norte710.002%
Paraná550.001%
Minas Gerais540.000%
Rio de Janeiro470.000%
Rio Grande do Sul460.000%
Goiás330.001%
Amazonas290.001%
Piauí280.001%
Ceará240.000%
Sergipe210.001%
Distrito Federal170.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Tayse

It is written with a plain T and a Y, without an accent, in the manner of Tays, a spelling of Taís that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil also records.

About the name Taíse

Wiktionary lists Taíse and Thaíse as variants of Taís, a name that comes from the Ancient Greek Θαΐς (Thaḯs) and that the dictionary relates to the verb θαυμάζω (thaumázō), 'to admire'. Behind the Name, on the other hand, says that Thaïs perhaps means 'bandage' in Greek and gives Taís and Thaís as the Brazilian forms. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 12,472 people named Taíse, with a median age of 30; proportionally, the name is most common in Bahia. The spellings in the group vary between T and TH at the start and between the accented I and the Y.

Other spellings of Taíse

SpellingPeople (2022)
Taíse12,472
Thaíse8,322
Thayse3,602
Tayse1,394

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Tais · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  2. Wiktionary: Taíse · en.wiktionary.org · spelling
  3. Wiktionary: Thaíse · en.wiktionary.org · spelling
  4. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Tais · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Tayse

What does the name Tayse mean?

The meaning of Tayse is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Tayse in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,394 people with the first name Tayse, which ranks it number 6,589 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

Is Tayse a boy's or a girl's name?

Tayse is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,391 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Tayse most common?

Proportionally, in Alagoas: 0.003% of the state's population is named Tayse (102 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Tayse?

Taíse, Thaíse and Thayse. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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