Tö
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tö is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 杜 (Tǒ͘) or 陶 (Tô).
- USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled To in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia, Tô in VN Vietnam and Tò in DZ Algeria.
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 Hokkien 杜 (Tǒ͘) or 陶 (Tô).
Sources 6
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tö 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Tô | 5 |
| US United States | 8,934 | 1 in 37K | 10K | To | 346 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | To | 171 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Tö | 111 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tò | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | To | 162 |
| NO Norway | 208 | 1 in 26K | 208 | — | 11 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Tö is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, thaw, weather conditions that make snow and ice melt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, you (plural)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tö mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 杜 (Tǒ͘) or 陶 (Tô). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Tö have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Tö in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tô.
- How common is the name Tö?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,934 people named Tö in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B6The 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, “Tö”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.