Tode

Locally spelled Toede 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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Tode is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Hindi40%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Tode in Hindi.

• English27%

  A sled used for hauling logs.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German11%

  dative singular of Tod

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Tode is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Philippines, Benin

  Also written Todè, Todé, Tôdé

• a separate name9 spellings in the group

  Also written Тоде, Todé

• Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, United States, Panama

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Tôde, Todë, Todè, Todé

34 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.

Tode is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In enm, A toad (dry-skinned member of the order Anura)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Christoph Todeb. 1515DEGerman politician (1515-1579)
• Heinrich Julius Todeb. 1733DERoman botanist, architect and mycologist (1733-1797)
• Johan Clemens Todeb. 1736DEDanish physician
• Ernst Todeb. 1859DEBaltic German painter (1859-1932)
• Waldemar Todeb. 1859SESwedish artist
• Vilis Todeb. 1873LVLatvian politician (1873-1920)
• Thomas Todeb. 1962DEfilm director
• Sven Todeb. 1964DEGerman politician and author
• Arne Todeb. 1985DEGerman motorcycle racer
• Laura-Love Todeactress

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Tode mean, and where does it come from?

A sled used for hauling logs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Tode have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 106 people named Tode, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toede.

Where is Tode most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tode is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Tode?

In the United States, the national register counted 106 people named Tode in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.