Tonér

surname · Latin script

Tonér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Lancs. from Ó Tomhrair ‘descendant of Tomhrar’, a gaelicized form of the Scandinavian personal name Thorr. Compare Thunder .

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 66K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 350K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 1M

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)

5,065 people, 2010

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Toner in US United States, DK Denmark.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Lancs. from Ó Tomhrair ‘descendant of Tomhrar’, a gaelicized form of the Scandinavian personal name Thorr. Compare Thunder .

Sources 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tonér 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 Tonér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,0651 in 66K5.1KToner24
BR Brazil301 in 7.1M30——
IN India261 in 51M26——
ES Spain191 in 2.6M19——
SI Slovenia61 in 350K6——
DK Denmark51 in 1.2M5Toner3
CR Costa Rica51 in 1M5——

5,065 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Tonér is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Turkish

    Also written Toner, Töner, Tone-R, Toener, Tower

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 Tonér 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 Tonér mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; Lancs. from Ó Tomhrair ‘descendant of Tomhrar’, a gaelicized form of the Scandinavian personal name Thorr. Compare Thunder . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Tonér have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Tonér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toner.
Where is Tonér most common?
Tonér is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 66 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tonér?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,065 people named Tonér in 2010, about 1 in 66 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, “Tonér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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