Tõnis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tõnis is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Estonia. Recorded meaning: From Latin Antonius, cognate with Danish Tønnes and English Anthony.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Latin Antonius, cognate with Danish Tønnes and English Anthony.
Sources 2
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tõnis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | — | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 260 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 58 | — |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 24 | — |
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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tõnis Rotbergb. 1882EEEstonian military personnel (1882–1953)
- Tõnis Kintb. 1896EEEstonian politician (1896-1991)
- Tõnis Kaskb. 1929EEEstonian film and television director (1929-2016)
- Tõnis Kõrvitsb. 1944EEEstonian composer (born 1944)
- Tõnis Mägib. 1948EEEstonian singer, guitarist, composer and actor (born 1948)
- Tõnis Paltsb. 1953EEEstonian politician (born 1953)
- Tõnis Lukasb. 1962EEEstonian politician (born 1962)
- Tõnis Kasemetsb. 1974EEEstonian racing driver (born 1974)
- Tõnis Kaldeb. 1976EEEstonian footballer (born 1976)
- Tõnis Mölderb. 1989EEEstonian politician (born 1989)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 1.8K | #93 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.8K | #93 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 8 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #47,288 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tõnis mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Antonius, cognate with Danish Tønnes and English Anthony. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Tõnis a male or female name?
- Tõnis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Tõnis?
- In the etymology graph, Tony, Ton and Anto are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Anton.
- In which country does Tõnis have the most bearers?
- Tõnis is most frequently recorded in Estonia.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B5nisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tõnis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.