Tonjes
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtoʊnjɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tonjes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 692Kas Toenjes
- ZMZambia≈1 in 8.2K
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 Tonjes 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.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Toenjes in US United States, BE Belgium, CD Congo - Kinshasa and Tönjes 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.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tonjes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Tonjes | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | Tönjes | 59 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Toenjes | 1 |
| US United States | — | 481as Toenjes | 1 in 692K | 488 | Toenjes | 140 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Toenjes | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 15 | 1 in 3M | 15 | Tonjes | 9 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Tonjes | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #380 | — | — | — | Tonjes | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Marguerite Belt TonjesUSnuclear physicist
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 346 | #58,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 336 | #64,041 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 15 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Tonjes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtoʊnjɛs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tonjes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Tonjes in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonjes.
- How common is the name Tonjes?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 15 people named Tonjes, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Tonjes compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Tonjes is the 380th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tonjes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonjesThe 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, “Tonjes” — the 380th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.