Tonel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: tun (a large wooden barrel, a vat, a cask)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tənəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tonel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 244K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 169K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 180K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)
866 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tun (a large wooden barrel, a vat, a cask)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tonel is read(measured from records)
Tonel is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tonel in English.
- Portuguese21%
tun (a large wooden barrel, a vat, a cask)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
barrel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tonel in Turkish.
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tonel in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tonel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 866 | 1 in 244K | 866 | Tonel | 43 |
| PH Philippines | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Tonel | 8 |
| IT Italy | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 265K | listed | Tonel | 9 |
| FR France | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 471K | 14 | — | — |
| US United States | 116 | 1 in 2.9M | 142 | Tonel | 23 |
| PT Portugal | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Tonel | 15 |
866 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Tonel 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 Italian, redução dialetal set. de Tonello.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In fro, barrel (large usually wooden container)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, cask; tun
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)
- Léonie Tonelb. 1828FRFrench pianist and composer
- Julius Sullan Tonelb. 1956PH20th and 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishop
- Juan Gómez TonelESSpanish writer
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 866 | #10,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 142 | #126,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
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 Tonel mean, and where does it come from?
- tun (a large wooden barrel, a vat, a cask) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tonel?
- A machine transcription gives /tənəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tonel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 866 people named Tonel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonel.
- How common is the name Tonel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 866 people named Tonel, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tonel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonelThe 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, “Tonel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.