Tonti
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: silly; dumb; wacko
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtɑnti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tonti is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
masculine plural of tonto
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Tonti is read(measured from records)
Tonti is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tonti in Hindi.
- English25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tonti in English.
- Spanish9.7%
silly; dumb; wacko
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.3%
masculine plural of tonto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- INIndia
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
- ITItaly
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Tonti is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of peleton inti
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)
- Michelangelo Tontib. 1566IT17th-century Catholic cardinal
- Henri de Tontib. 1649ITItalian-born French military officer, explorer, and fur trader
- Paolo Tontib. 1785ITItalian agronomist and philanthropist
- Giulio Tontib. 1844ITCatholic cardinal (1844–1918)
- Aldo Tontib. 1910ITItalian cinematographer (1910–1988)
- Lino Tontib. 1920ITItalian motorcycle designer (1920-2002)
- Enzo Tontib. 1935ITItalian engineer
- Andrea Tontib. 1976ITroad bicycle racer
- Alex Tontib. 2000ITActor and influencer
- Dino Tontiresearcher
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 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 397 | #52,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 373 | #58,695 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 190 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 27 | #29,501 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #75,213 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Tonti come from?
- masculine plural of tonto Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tonti?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑnti/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Tonti mean?
- In Spanish, silly; dumb; wacko
- In which country does Tonti have the most bearers?
- Tonti is most frequently recorded in India.
What do you want to know about Tonti?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tontiThe 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, “Tonti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.