Detone

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of detonar:

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 501K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

423 people

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 501K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inflection of detonar:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Detone 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 Detone is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil4231 in 501K423Detone25
AR Argentina241 in 1.9M24Detone7
US United States——listedDetone5
PY Paraguay———Detone2

423 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)

Detone is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, detonated

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Detone
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—423#19,769
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Detone mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of detonar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Detone have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 423 people named Detone, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled detone.
Where is Detone most common?
Detone is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 501 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Detone?
In Brazil, the national register counted 423 people named Detone, about 1 in 501 thousand residents.

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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, “Detone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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