Tornes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of tornar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɔɹnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tornes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 647K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 7.9K
- IEIreland≈1 in 42K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
688 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present subjunctive of tornar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tornes 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.
688 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Tornes 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 Asturian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tornar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of tornō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, second-person singular present indicative of tornar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of torn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Tornés. Dineroa zen moneda mota bat hamalaur ardit Franziakorik balio zituenik: baina batzutan hartzen da dinero tornés batagatik-ere. Lç Decl ẽ, 2v.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Knut Tornesb. 1943NOresearcher
- Kristin Tornesb. 1944NONorwegian sociologist
- Erik Tornesb. 1974NONorwegian journalist
- Tonje Tornesb. 1977NONorwegian writer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Tornes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of tornar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tornes?
- A machine transcription gives /tɔɹnz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tornes have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 688 people named Tornes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tornes.
- Where is Tornes most common?
- Tornes is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tornes?
- In Norway, the national register counted 688 people named Tornes, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tornesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Tornes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.