Names of Tonga TO
Names in Tonga are recorded in Tongan and English, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.
Written in Tongan, English.
- Population
- 106K
- Name forms recorded
- 10
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Tonga
2 naming traditions are in use in Tonga, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Tonga
No official register
Scripts & spelling
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Tonga?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in Tonga?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Tongan, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Tonga”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/TO (data snapshot 2026-10-09).