Tolé

loc · Latin script

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

Tolé is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 74K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 616K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

540 people, 2010

Sources
44 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are 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)

Derivation of Tolé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Tolé
  1. Frenchtôle“sheet iron”(measured from records)
  2. Latintabula(measured from records)

From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

Sources 3

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tolé 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 Tolé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5401 in 616K580—15
HR Croatia571 in 74K57——
IN India521 in 26M52——
ES Spain381 in 1.3M38—1
BR Brazil221 in 9.6M22——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

540 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

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

  • German surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, United States

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Töle, Toele, Tole, Tôle

  • Hindi name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Tole, Töle, Tóle

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tolé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tolé mean, and where does it come from?
From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Tolé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 540 people named Tolé, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tolé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tolé is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tolé?
In the United States, the national register counted 540 people named Tolé in 2010, about 1 in 616 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, “Tolé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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