Tõnne
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tõnne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French tonne. Doublet of ton and tun.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 130K
- USUnited States1 in 640K
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)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
520 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 French tonne. Doublet of ton and tun.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tõnne 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 520 | 1 in 640K | 520 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 32 | Tõnne | 11 |
| IN India | 13 | 1 in 102M | 13 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | — |
520 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 32 | #3,348 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 27 | #3,949 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tõnne mean, and where does it come from?
- From French tonne. Doublet of ton and tun. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and A Frequency Dictionary of German and 1 other source.
- In which country does Tõnne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 520 people named Tõnne, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tõnne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 520 people named Tõnne in 2010, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B5nneThe 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, “Tõnne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.