Tongsoo
surname · Latin script
Tongsoo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.4Kas 동수(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.3Mas Dongsoo
- USUnited States1 in 2.4Mas Dongsoo
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 Tongsoo 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named 동수, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 동수
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dongsoo in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and 동수 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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tongsoo 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 | #264 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | 동수 | 62 |
| US United States | — | 140as Dongsoo | 1 in 2.4M | 133 | Dongsoo | 53 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Dongsoo | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Dongsoo | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Dongsoo | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tongsoo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named 동수 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tongsoo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 140 people named Dongsoo in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Tongsoo compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Tongsoo is the 264th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tongsooThe 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, “Tongsoo” — the 264th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.