Cut
loc · Latin script
Meaning: v., téwé; cut to pieces, tetewe; cut down with an axe, nwona, pa; cut away, pinye; cut off with the finger, ponde; cut open, manwona; cut closely, mahaga; cut off, maléwé; cut into small pieces, kpuka
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cut is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
v., téwé; cut to pieces, tetewe; cut down with an axe, nwona, pa; cut away, pinye; cut off with the finger, ponde; cut open, manwona; cut closely, mahaga; cut off, maléwé; cut into small pieces, kpuka
Sources 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cut 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.
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: the id-github-names register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cut is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, kut termen agrar ucrainean. 1. - Hr. (Bal vl) ; -1, fam., ard.(An C II). 2. Cutuca, olt. (Sd VI 495). 3. Cf. Cutooa ar. (Cara 34). 2 §i 3 provin din alte teme. Cutelnicu v. S cut elnic 2. Cutroci v. Cot roc 4. Cutuna v. Cat un 4.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In sit-pro, finish, complete
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Portuguese, acronym of Central Única dos Trabalhadores (“Unified Workers' Central”); the main national trade union center in Brazil, formed in 1983
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Cois Fharraige form of cat (“cat”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #48,024 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #14,201 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cut mean, and where does it come from?
- v., téwé; cut to pieces, tetewe; cut down with an axe, nwona, pa; cut away, pinye; cut off with the finger, ponde; cut open, manwona; cut closely, mahaga; cut off, maléwé; cut into small pieces, kpuka Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
- In which country does Cut have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Cut in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cut.
- How common is the name Cut?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 4 people named Cut, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cutThe 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, “Cut”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.