Tonder
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tonder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 36K
- PLPoland1 in 66K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 in the world(measured from records)
Tonder 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #255 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Tonder | 90 |
| PL Poland | — | 584 | 1 in 66K | 295 | Tonder | 35 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 467K | — | Tonder | 44 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Tonder | 56 |
| FI Finland | — | 155 | 1 in 36K | 155 | Tonder | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Tonder | 23 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Sláva Tonderová-Zátkováb. 1884CZnot in their usual namePainter
- Antonín Tonderb. 1888CZCzechoslovak photographer
- Ivo Tonderb. 1913CZCzechoslovak golfer
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 295 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 295 | #11,322 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 289 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 289 | #11,326 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 155 | #9,121 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 64 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- In which country does Tonder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Tonder in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonder.
- How common is the name Tonder?
- In Poland, the national register counted 584 people named Tonder in 2026, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
- How common is Tonder compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Tonder is the 255th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tonder?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonderThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tonder” — the 255th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.