Toran
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A gateway consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels, often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serving as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɔˈɹɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Toran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 329K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 709K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A gateway consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels, often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serving as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Toran 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Toran | 12 |
| US United States | 413 | 1 in 805K | 909 | Toran | 18 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Toran | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 7 | Toran | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 709K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | Toran | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Toran is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Taran.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of torar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of tora
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of tora
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, twilight, dusk, duskiness
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)
- Toran Shumsher J.B.R.b. 1904Nepalese chief of police
- Toran Jamesb. 1974USAmerican football player
- Toran Waibrob. 2002IDIndonesian actor
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 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 909 | #27,975 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 786 | #28,548 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 783 | #29,986 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #32,850 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Toran mean, and where does it come from?
- A gateway consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels, often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serving as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toran?
- A machine transcription gives /tɔˈɹɑn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Toran a male or female name?
- Toran is a male 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 Toran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Toran in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toran.
- How common is the name Toran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 413 people named Toran in 2020, about 1 in 805 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toranThe 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, “Toran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.