Tongson
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tənɡsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tongson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 4.1M(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈13 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tong-Sŏn in KR South Korea.
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)
Tongson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Tong-Sŏn | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | 306 | Tongson | 3 |
| IN India | — | — | 3 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
- Karen Tongsonb. 1973USFilipino-American cultural critic, writer and queer studies scholar
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 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 306 | #69,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 255 | #75,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 184 | #92,601 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #23,065 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Tongson?
- A machine transcription gives /tənɡsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tongson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 people named Tongson in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tong-sŏn.
- How common is the name Tongson?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 people in South Korea have Tongson as their first given name, about 1 in 4.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Tongson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tongsonThe 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, “Tongson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.