Tonen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to show
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Tonen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 95K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
- CACanada≈1 in 5.2M
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 Tonen 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
181 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tönen in DE Germany.
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 show
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tonen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 181 | 1 in 95K | 181 | Tonen | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Tonen | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 83M | — | Tonen | 9 |
| DE Germany | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Tönen | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | Tonen | 10 |
181 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tonen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, to show, to demonstrate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of tondre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of tone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of ton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, dative plural of Ton
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)- Gerard Tonenb. 1954NLDutch creator
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 181 | #11,438 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #89,625 |
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 Tonen mean, and where does it come from?
- to show Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch.
- In which country does Tonen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 181 people named Tonen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonen.
- Where is Tonen most common?
- Tonen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tonen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 181 people named Tonen in 2007, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tonen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonenThe 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, “Tonen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.