Tuer
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tuer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 182K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 240Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 420Kfew records
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 Tuer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
4,932 named Tur
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tur in US United States.
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.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tuer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 4,932as Tur | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | — | 61 |
| PL Poland | 2,026as Tur | 1 in 19K | 1K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 1,154as Tur | 1 in 39K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| US United States | 617as Tur | 1 in 539K | 655 | Tur | 153 |
| BR Brazil | 226as Tur | 1 in 937K | 226 | Tuer | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 177as Tur | 1 in 19K | 177 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 52as Tur | 1 in 162K | 52 | — | 11 |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | 2 |
4,932 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Tuer 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of tue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-gal, to turn off (the light)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, extinguish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, to kill
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, receleur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Basque, ( V-m ap. Zubk Ond , G-azp ). Tuerto.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Herbert Tuerb. 1600GBBritish painter (1600–1686)
- Andrew White Tuerb. 1838GBBritish printer
- Sheila Mary Tuerb. 1924GBBritish educationalist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 146 | #118,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 143 | #125,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,372 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- In which country does Tuer have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Tur, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tuer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tuer is densest in Norway — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tuer?
- In Norway, the national register counted 30 people named Tuer, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tuer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tuerThe 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, “Tuer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.