Tönne

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tönne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 640K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 130K
  • FIFinland≈1 in 154K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,800 people, est.

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tonne in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Toenne in NO Norway.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tönne 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 Tönne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈5,800 est.≈1 in 242K—Tonne1
US United States5201 in 640K520Tonne163
DE Germany≈400 est.≈1 in 202KlistedTonne67
ES Spain≈90 est.≈1 in 555K—Tonne6
GB United Kingdom≈51 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Tonne17
NO Norway421 in 130K42Toenne7
FI Finland≈36 est.≈1 in 154K—Tonne2

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tönne is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Tonne, Tonné

  • Estonian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Tõnne, Tonne, Tonné

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019101920Ferdinand Tönne, b. 1904Gösta Tönne, b. 1906Gösta Tönne, b. 1914

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Tönne have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Tönne in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonne.
Where is Tönne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tönne is densest in Norway — about 1 in 130 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tönne?
In the United States, the national register counted 520 people named Tönne in 2010, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.

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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, “Tönne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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