Țona

surname · Latin script

Țona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: tiger; also ‘hero, outstanding warrior’ as a title.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 236K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 15K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 42K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,411 people, 2020

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tona in US United States, CL Chile and Toña in CO Colombia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tiger; also ‘hero, outstanding warrior’ as a title

Sources 4

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Țona counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Țona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,4111 in 236K1.4KTona78
NL Netherlands4121 in 42K412—2
HR Croatia2831 in 15K283——
CO Colombia≈90 est.≈1 in 546K—Toña12
CL Chile≈78 est.≈1 in 234K—Tona9
GY Guyana31 in 250K3——

1,411 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Țona under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Țona mean, and where does it come from?
tiger; also ‘hero, outstanding warrior’ as a title Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 2 other sources.
In which country does Țona have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Țona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tona.
Where is Țona most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Țona is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Țona?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,411 people named Țona in 2020, about 1 in 236 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C8%9Bona

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Țona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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