Tongi
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tənʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tongi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 28K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.5M
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.1M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
300 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Toengi in CH Switzerland, US United States and Töngi 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
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)
Tongi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 300 | 1 in 28K | 300 | Toengi | 10 |
| US United States | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Toengi | 46 |
| DE Germany | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Töngi | 20 |
| IN India | 25 | 1 in 53M | 25 | — | 3 |
| NR Nauru | — | — | 1 | — | — |
300 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling töngi. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Nauru Electoral Commission — Voter Registration Notifications (Government Gazette 2024-2025). 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)
Tongi 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 Finnish, inflection of tonkia:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, tauta Zambijas dienvidos un Zimbabves ziemeļrietumos, valoda (čitonga) pieder pie bantu saimes centrālās grupas valodām, saglabājuši vietējos tradicionālos ticējumus, daļa - kristieši
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Bangladešā, 281900 iedzīvotāju (2001. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 43 | #39,412 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #68,383 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tongi?
- A machine transcription gives /tənʒi/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- In which country does Tongi have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 300 people named Tongi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toengi.
- Where is Tongi most common?
- Tongi is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tongi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 300 people named Tongi in 2024, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tongi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tongiThe 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, “Tongi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.