Thị
The root carries the sense of clan and lineage, family in the broad sense. All 354 people in Poland who use it are women, and it now goes to almost no newborns, so most Poles have never met one.
Thị Pronunciation
What Thị means
Where Thị comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Thị traces back to the Chinese character 氏, which names a clan or a line of descent. Vietnamese speakers borrowed it long ago and gave it a role of its own. For centuries it sat as a middle name between a woman's family name and her given one, so that Nguyễn Thị Lan announced, in its second syllable, that the bearer was a daughter of her house.
The origin belongs to no European root, which is why it is filed under "other". Its short meaning stays close to the character: clan, family, lineage. That sense was never decorative. A woman named this way was tied by one small word to the people she came from.
Short word, long reach.
On a Polish class register the name can look unfamiliar, three letters and a dot of diacritic that a teacher may pause over at the first roll call. Yet what it records is old and plain. Thị does not describe the girl who carries it. It names her descent, her ród, the given name that will follow right after it.
How many people are named Thị
1 in 63683 women in Poland is named Thị. 354 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1595 among female names.
Thị as a middle name
Thị is a first name for 354 women in Poland and a middle name for another 30, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1295th, between Suzan (30) and Wieslawa (30).
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#1293 Sofi30
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#1294 Suzan30
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#1295 Thi30
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#1296 Wieslawa30
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#1297 Wiwiana30