M'Tonga
surname · Latin script
M'Tonga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country.
- ZMZambia≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mtonga in ZM Zambia, TZ Tanzania, ZA South Africa and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
M'Tonga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | #151 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 55K | Mtonga | 35 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | — | — | — | — | Mtonga | 14 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | — | Mtonga | 14 |
| US United States | — | — | — | listed | Mtonga | 43 |
| MW Malawi | #662 | — | — | — | Mtonga | 14 |
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: Zambia top-100 surnames (surnam.es); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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
- In which country does M'Tonga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 529 people named M'Tonga in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mtonga.
- How common is the name M'Tonga?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named M'Tonga in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is M'Tonga compared with other names?
- In Zambia, M'Tonga is the 151st most common surname of 16,584 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about M'Tonga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m'tongaThe 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, “M'Tonga” — the 151st most common surname in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.