Tuţu
surname · Latin script
Tuţu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).
- SESweden1 in 567K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 929K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tuţu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 567K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79 named Туту, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Туту in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan and Tutu in NL Netherlands, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)- Frenchtutu(measured from records)
- French rootcucu“bum“bum, bottom”(measured from records)
Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tuţu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Туту | 60 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 247K | 11 | Туту | 4 |
| ES Spain | 35 | 1 in 1.4M | 131 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 18 | 1 in 567K | 18 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 67 | Tutu | 1 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 696K | — | Tutu | 6 |
| FI Finland | 6 | 1 in 929K | 40 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tuţu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Tuţu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 people named Туту in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tuţu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tuţu is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 567 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tuţu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 35 people named Tuţu, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tuţu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tu%C5%A3uThe 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, “Tuţu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.