Tholen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tholen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 22K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 280Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tholen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thoelen in BE Belgium and Tholén in SE Sweden.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tholen is found
(measured from records)Tholen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Tholen | 84 |
| BE Belgium | 1,047as Thoelen | 1 in 11K | 1K | Thoelen | 33 |
| US United States | 854 | 1 in 390K | 925 | Tholen | 212 |
| NL Netherlands | 772 | 1 in 22K | 772 | Tholen | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 468K | 30 | Tholen | 37 |
| SE Sweden | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Tholén | 13 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Tholen | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Willem Bastiaan Tholenb. 1860NLDutch artist (1860–1931)
- David J. Tholenb. 1955USAmerican astronomer
- Toni Tholenb. 1965DEGerman germanist and specialist in literature
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)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tholen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Tholen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tholen. After it come Belgium, United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tholen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tholen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tholen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 854 people named Tholen in 2010, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tholen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tholenThe 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, “Tholen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.