Toet

surname · Latin script

Meaning: beep, honk

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tut/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Toet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4Mas Tot
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.9Kas Tot

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Toet itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

3,778 named Tot

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TotLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tot in NL Netherlands, US United States and Tøt in DK Denmark.

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)

beep, honk

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Toet 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 Toet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—3,778as Tot1 in 351K3.8K—3
NL Netherlands#9251,7381 in 9.9K1.7KTot46
HR Croatia—1,483as Tot1 in 2.9K1.5K—2
SI Slovenia—151as Tot1 in 14K151—1
US United States—137as Tot1 in 2.4M240Tot90
DK Denmark—98as Tøt1 in 60K98Tøt22
CZ Czechia—46as Tót1 in 233K46——

3,778 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Toet is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Toẹt, Toét

  • Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Also written Tõët, Toẹt

  • a separate surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Also written Tọet, Toét, Toẹt

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Netherlands, Syria

    Also written Toẹt

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Toet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Danish, past participle of to

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Walloon, roof

    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)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalGeachte heer/mevrouw Toet,Dear Toet, (English)
InformalGeachte heer/mevrouw Toet,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Toet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20071.7K#781
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5#63,158

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Toet mean, and where does it come from?
beep, honk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Toet?
A machine transcription gives /tut/ (IPA) for Dutch.
In which country does Toet have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Tot, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Toet most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toet is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 9.9 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Toet?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,738 people named Toet in 2007, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
How common is Toet compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Toet is the 925th most common surname of 284,143 surnames 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, “Toet” — the 925th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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