Toben
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to rage, riot
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈtoːbn̩/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Toben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 200Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 800K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M
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 Toben 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
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, 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 Toeben in BS Bahamas.
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
(measured from records)to rage, riot
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Toben 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 | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Toben | 51 |
| US United States | — | 416 | 1 in 800K | 457 | Toben | 150 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 23 | Toben | 44 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Toben | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Toben | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | Toben | 11 |
| BS Bahamas | #833 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Toeben | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Gerald Fredrick Töbenb. 1944AUAustralian Holocaust denier (1944–2020)
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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 457 | #49,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 416 | #50,275 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 399 | #49,471 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 23 | #82,763 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #57,982 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Toben mean, and where does it come from?
- to rage, riot Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toben?
- In German /ˈtoːbn̩/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Toben have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 428 people named Toben in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toben.
- How common is the name Toben?
- In the United States, the national register counted 416 people named Toben in 2010, about 1 in 800 thousand residents.
- How common is Toben compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Toben is the 833rd most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Toben?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tobenThe 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, “Toben” — the 833rd most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.