Tonico
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Antônio (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Tonico is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 1.5Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 2.8M
- MXMexico≈1 in 13Mfew records
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tónico in MX Mexico, US United States.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the male given name Antônio
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tonico is found
(measured from records)Tonico 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 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 238 | Tonico | 30 |
| US United States | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Tónico | 29 |
| ES Spain | 18 | 1 in 2.8M | 18 | — | 8 |
| MX Mexico | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Tónico | 5 |
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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tonico mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name Antônio Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tonico?
- Mondonomo estimates about 143 people named Tonico in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonico. After it come United States, Spain and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tonico?
- In Spain, the national register counted 18 people named Tonico, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tonico?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonicoThe 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, “Tonico” — ranked 10367th in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.