Tiger
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tiger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- USUnited States1 in 137K(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 12K
- SESweden≈1 in 23K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Tiger | 33 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Tiger | 5 |
| US United States | 2,428 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Tiger | 312 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tiger | 21 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Tiger | 19 |
| SE Sweden | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1K | Tiger | 39 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Tiger | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Tiger | 13 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tiger is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, subu; fem. sugbu- ha; masc. sugbu-hina
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Irish, This has been recorded as a synonym of MacEntaggart in Co. Dublin. The English name Tiger is from an Old-German word meaning people-spear
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a tiger (Panthera tigris)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of tygre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, tiger (animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean Tigerb. 1623FRFrench painter (1623–1698)
- Félicie Tigerb. 1820FRFrench painter (1820-1890)
- Louise Filliaux-Tigerb. 1848FRFrench pianist, composer and music pedagogue
- Frans Johan Tigerb. 1849SESwedish painter (1849-1919)
- Väinö Tigerb. 1896FIFinnish painter (1896-1964)
- Annica Tigerb. 1953SESwedish Internet pioneer and public educator in HTML
- Dana Tigerb. 1961USAmerican artist
- Mikael Tigerb. 1973SESwedish physician
- Angela Tigerb. 1976FRFrench pornographic actress
- Liliane Tigerb. 1985CZCzech pornographic actress
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 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,667 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 652 | #1,484 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Tiger mean, and where does it come from?
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tiger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Tiger in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiger.
- What are other forms of the name Tiger?
- In the etymology graph, Tekir and Tigrine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Tiger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,428 people named Tiger in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tigerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tiger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.