Toruňo
surname · Latin script
Toruňo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Toruño. This surname is mostly found in Nicaragua.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 3K(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 3.1K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 14Kfew records
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Toruño in NI Nicaragua, CR Costa Rica, HN Honduras and 2 more and Toruno in US United States.
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)Borrowed from Spanish Toruño. This surname is mostly found in Nicaragua.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Toruňo is found
(measured from records)Toruňo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #286 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Toruño | 21 |
| CR Costa Rica | #245 | 1,715 | 1 in 3K | 1.7K | Toruño | 18 |
| HN Honduras | #504 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Toruño | 12 |
| US United States | — | 596 | 1 in 558K | 636 | Toruno | 116 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Toruño | 11 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 1 | Toruño | 12 |
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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Toruňo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Toruño. This surname is mostly found in Nicaragua. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Toruňo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Toruňo in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toruño. After it come Costa Rica, Honduras, United States and Guatemala; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Toruňo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toruňo is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Nicaragua holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Toruňo?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1,715 people named Toruňo, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Toruňo compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Toruňo is the 286th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toru%C5%88oThe 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, “Toruňo” — the 286th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.