Tonna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tənnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tonna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 467K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 167K
- DKDenmark1 in 293K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tonna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Tonna | 19 |
| US United States | 713 | 1 in 467K | 687 | Tonna | 174 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 579K | 184 | Tonna | 61 |
| IT Italy | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 689K | listed | Tonna | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 607K | — | Tonna | 48 |
| IE Ireland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Tonna | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 20 | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Tonna | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Tonna is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, alternative form of tunna (“tun”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of tonner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, ton (unit of weight, 1000 kg)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, feminine singular of tunno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of tonn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, ton (unit of weight)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edoardo Tonnab. 1891roman-catholic archbishop (1891-1963)
- Giuseppe Tonnab. 1920ITItalian writer and translator (1920–1979)
- Gratien Tonnab. 1949FRFrench boxer
- Daniel Tonnab. 1952FRFrench politician
- Eivind Tonnab. 1975NONorwegian ski orienteer
- Hannele Tonnab. 1978FIFinnish ski orienteer
- Dionne Tonnab. 1983MTMaltese association football player
- Gabrielle Tonnab. 1995MTMaltese association football player
- Antonella TonnaGBresearcher
- Matteo Tonnaresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 184 | #22,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 182 | #104,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 180 | #100,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 172 | #97,848 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tonna?
- A machine transcription gives /tənnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tonna a male or female name?
- Tonna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tonna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 721 people named Tonna in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonna.
- How common is the name Tonna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 713 people named Tonna in 2020, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tonna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonnaThe 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, “Tonna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.