Tosun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sağlıklı, tıknaz delikanlı
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t̪os̪un̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tosun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 46K
- FIFinland1 in 47K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
426 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sağlıklı, tıknaz delikanlı.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tosun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 426 | 1 in 41K | 426 | Tosun | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 181 | 1 in 46K | 181 | Tosun | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 177 | 1 in 66K | 280 | Tosun | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 176 | 1 in 58K | 176 | Tosun | 8 |
| US United States | — | 146 | 1 in 2.3M | 211 | Tosun | 82 |
| FI Finland | — | 118 | 1 in 47K | 118 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | #850 | — | — | — | Tosun | 29 |
426 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Tosun is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, wild, undisciplined
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Finnish, genitive singular of tosu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In trk-pro, дикий, необъезженный
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Erdal Tosunb. 1963TRTurkish actor (1963–2016)
- Gülbin Tosunb. 1977TRTurkish journalist and newscaster (born 1977)
- Yalçın Tosunb. 1977TRTurkish writer (born 1977)
- Hamide Bıkçın Çetinerb. 1978TRnot in their usual nameTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1978)
- Çağatay Tosunb. 1978TRTurkish film director (born 1978)
- Murat Tosunb. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Cansu Tosunb. 1988TRTurkish actor (born 1988)
- Cenk Tosunb. 1991DETurkish association football player (born 1991)
- Buse Tosunb. 1995TRTurkish wrestler (born 1995)
- Jane Removerb. 2003USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and producer
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 426 | #4,670 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 280 | #6,188 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 211 | #93,282 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 181 | #6,817 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 177 | #9,473 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 176 | #4,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 146 | #118,853 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 118 | #11,300 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tosun?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪os̪un̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Tosun mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sağlıklı, tıknaz delikanlı.
- In which country does Tosun have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 426 people named Tosun, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tosun.
- Where is Tosun most common?
- Tosun is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tosun?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 426 people named Tosun in 2007, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Tosun compared with other names?
- In Austria, Tosun is the 850th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tosun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tosunThe 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, “Tosun” — the 850th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.