Tové

surname · Latin script

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

Tové is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Danish Tove. First recorded in Sweden in 1886.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 413(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 514
  • SESweden1 in 1.2K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

13,236 people, 2025

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 413 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tove in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States and 1 more.

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)

From Danish Tove. First recorded in Sweden in 1886.

Sources 3

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tové 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 Tové is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway—13,2361 in 41341KTove17
DK Denmark—11,4121 in 51411K——
SE Sweden—8,5341 in 1.2K8.5KTove13
FI Finland—8901 in 6.3K1K—3
US United States—4941 in 673K469Tove9
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——
BJ Benin#813———Tove4

13,236 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

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

  • Norwegian given name46 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Tove, Töve, Tove', Tovè, Toeve

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 Tové 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 Tové mean, and where does it come from?
From Danish Tove. First recorded in Sweden in 1886. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
In which country does Tové have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Tové, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tove.
Where is Tové most common?
Tové is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 413 people carrying it.
How common is the name Tové?
In Norway, the national register counted 13,236 people named Tové in 2025, about 1 in 413 residents.
How common is Tové compared with other names?
In Benin, Tové is the 813th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tové” — the 813th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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