Tido
given name · Latin script
Meaning: past participle of ter
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tido is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 152K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 188K
- DEGermany≈1 in 379K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
past participle of ter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tido 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Tido | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 379K | — | Tido | 40 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 454K | — | Tido | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 92 | 1 in 188K | 92 | Tido | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Tido | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | 2 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tido is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., friesische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In ivv, earwax
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mui, sleep
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tido Heinrich von der Lithb. 1646DEGerman philologist and mayor
- Tido Wedellb. 1908(1908-1982)
- Tido Visserb. 1970NLDutch bass
- Tidob. 1992FIFinnish musician and producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tido mean, and where does it come from?
- past participle of ter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tido a male or female name?
- Tido is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tido have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 385 people named Tido in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tido.
- How common is the name Tido?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 92 people named Tido, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tido?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tidoThe 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, “Tido”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.