Törne

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a thorn

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 168K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 186K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Törne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

1,823 people

Sources
107 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Torne in ES Spain, AR Argentina, PH Philippines and 3 more and Toerne in BZ Belize.

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)

a thorn

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Törne 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 Törne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,8231 in 27K1.8KTorne94
PH Philippines≈590 est.≈1 in 186K—Torne12
CO Colombia≈340 est.≈1 in 145K—Torne34
AR Argentina2711 in 168K271Torne31
FR France≈170 est.≈1 in 392K17Torne107
FI Finland1461 in 38K146Torne2
CZ Czechia77as Turna1 in 139K77—3
BZ Belize≈3 est.≈1 in 116K—Toerne1

1,823 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Törne is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Torné, Torne, Tornè

  • Finnish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Torne, Torné

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Spain

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Torne, Torné

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Spain

    Also written Торне, Torne, Torné

  • Turkish name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Torne, Torné

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Törne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, third-person singular conditional present indefinite of tör

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Olof Hansson Törnflycht, b. 1640Olof Törnflycht, b. 1680Frans Vilhelm Törne, b. 1870Volker Törne, b. 1934

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Törne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—146#9,559
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—62—

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

What does the name Törne mean, and where does it come from?
a thorn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Törne have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Törne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torne.
Where is Törne most common?
Törne is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Törne?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,823 people named Törne, about 1 in 27 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, “Törne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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