Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a rare Korean family name.
As a rare Korean family name, Tae is written with only one hanja, meaning "great" (太).
[1] They are a noble clan directly descended from the royal family of the Balhae dynasty.
The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,165 people with the family name Tae.
[2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae.