Tönis

loc · Latin script

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

Tönis is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 28M(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 298K
  • ISIceland1 in 351K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

166 people, 2022

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 298K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tönis 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 Tönis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1661 in 1.3M260——
NL Netherlands581 in 298K58—3
SE Sweden241 in 425K24—1
FI Finland81 in 696K35—1
DE Germany≈3 est.≈1 in 28M—Tönis25
LV Latvia21 in 941K2——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

166 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); 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)

Tönis is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Estonia

    Also written Tonis, Tõnis

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Tonis, Tõnis, Toñis

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tőnis, Țoniș, Tonis, Tõnis

  • Spanish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Brazil, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Estonian

    Also written Tonis, Tõnis, Töñis, Toňis, Tońis

  • Swedish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Also written Tõnis, Tonis, Tónis

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Toniş, Tonis, Tõnis

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Tonis, Toñis, Tõnis, Tőnis

2 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Tõnis Rotberg, b. 1882Tõnis Kint, b. 1896Tõnis Kask, b. 1929Tõnis Kõrvits, b. 1944Tõnis Mägi, b. 1948Tõnis Palts, b. 1953Tõnis Lukas, b. 1962Tõnis Kasemets, b. 1974Tõnis Kalde, b. 1976Tõnis Mölder, b. 1989

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 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Tönis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—32#10,901
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24#22,080
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#27,453
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201119—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201218—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200218—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201517—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201417—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201317—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201017—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200917—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200817—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

In which country does Tönis have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 166 people named Tönis, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tönis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tönis is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 298 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tönis?
In Brazil, the national register counted 166 people named Tönis in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 million 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, “Tönis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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