Tohru
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Tohru is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 777Kas Toru(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 941Kas Toru
- SESweden1 in 1.7Mas Toru
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 Tohru itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 777K (inferred from the name graph)
428 named Toru, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, as Toru
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Toru in US United States.
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)Tohru 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.
428 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); e-services.md — living population 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)- Tōru Takemitsub. 1930JPJapanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930–1996)
- Robert Kiyosakib. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican finance author and investor (born 1947)
- Jinpachi Nezub. 1947JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor
- Tōru Furuyab. 1953JPJapanese actor, voice actor and narrator
- Tōru Iwatanib. 1955JPJapanese video game designer, creator of Pac-Man (born 1955)
- Tōru Ōkawab. 1960JPJapanese voice actor
- Tohru Watanabeb. 1961JPJapanese actor and singer (1961-2022)
- Tōru Tezukab. 1962JPJapanese actor
- Tōru Nakamurab. 1965JPJapanese actor
- Tōru Hashimotob. 1969JPJapanese politician, lawyer, political commentator, and television personality (1969-)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- Is Tohru a male or female name?
- Tohru 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 Tohru have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 428 people named Toru, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tohru most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Tohru itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 777 thousand people named Toru.
- How common is the name Tohru?
- In the United States, the national register counted 428 people named Toru in 2020, about 1 in 777 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tohruThe 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, “Tohru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.