Tunde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yoruba: short form of names meaning 'returns'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tunde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 255(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 854
- USUnited States1 in 470K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yoruba: short form of names meaning 'returns'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tunde 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 854 | — | Tunde | 53 |
| HU Hungary | #249 | 38,389 | 1 in 255 | 38K | Tunde | 123 |
| RO Romania | #987 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Tunde | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 31 | Tunde | 89 |
| US United States | — | 707 | 1 in 470K | 401 | Tunde | 156 |
| SE Sweden | — | 152 | 1 in 67K | 152 | — | 15 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6 | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Tunde 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 Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of tundō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to crop, shear, clip, trim, prune, mow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, partitive plural of tund
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of tundir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, Tuesday
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)
- Tunde Kelanib. 1948NGNigerian filmmaker
- Tissyb. 1953HUnot in their usual nameHungarian singer
- Tunde Odunladeb. 1954NGNigerian artist and musician
- Tünde Handób. 1962HUHungarian jurist (1962–)
- Tunde Baiyewub. 1968GBBritish singer
- Tunde Juhaszb. 1969AUAustralian cricketer
- Tünde Szabób. 1974HUHungarian swimmer and politician
- Tunde Adebimpeb. 1975USAmerican musician
- Tunde Adenijib. 1996NGNigerian footballer
- Kriszta Inczeb. 1996ROnot in their usual nameRomanian freestyle wrestler
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 401 | #16,074 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 306 | #16,074 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,794 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 19 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Tunde mean, and where does it come from?
- Yoruba: short form of names meaning 'returns' Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Tunde?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtənd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tunde a male or female name?
- Tunde is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tunde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 250 thousand people named Tunde in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tunde.
- Where is Tunde most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tunde is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 255 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tunde?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 38,389 people named Tunde in 2025, about 1 in 255 residents.
- How common is Tunde compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Tunde is the 249th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tunde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tundeThe 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, “Tunde” — the 249th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.