Tankred
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., normannische Form von
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰaŋkʁeːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tankred is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- DKDenmark
- NONorway
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom., normannische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- DEGermany
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
- NONorway
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tancred of Hautevilleb. 980FRnot in their usual nameNorman petty lord
- Tancredb. 1072ITnot in their usual nameItalo-Norman leader of the First Crusade (1075-1112)
- Tancred, King of Sicilyb. 1138ITnot in their usual nameNorman king of Sicily (1138-1194)
- Tancred Robinsonb. 1657GBnot in their usual nameEnglish physician
- Tancred Boreniusb. 1885FInot in their usual nameFinnish art historian (1885–1948)
- Tancred Ibsenb. 1893NOnot in their usual namefilm director, screenwriter, officer, and pilot (1893–1978)
- Ben Renvallb. 1903FInot in their usual nameFinnish sculptor (1903–1979)
- Tancred Ibsen, Jr.b. 1921NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian diplomat (1921–2015)
- Tankred Dorstb. 1925DEGerman playwright and storyteller (1925–2017)
- Tankred Schipanskib. 1976DEGerman politician
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #5,686 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #5,660 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #45,551 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #25,593 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #43,677 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 1994 | 2 | #621 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1994 | 1 | #1,153 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1990 | 1 | #1,010 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2017 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Tankred mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom., normannische Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Tankred?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰaŋkʁeːt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Tankred a male or female name?
- Tankred is a male 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 Tankred have the most bearers?
- Tankred is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tankredThe 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, “Tankred”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.