TuFo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: foul odor, stench
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtufoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
TuFo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 227K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 734K
- ARArgentina1 in 3.8M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 227K (inferred from the name graph)
453 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
foul odor, stench
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
TuFo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 453 | 1 in 734K | 453 | TuFo | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | TuFo | 17 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | TuFo | 22 |
| IT Italy | — | — | listed | TuFo | 13 |
| PA Panama | — | — | — | TuFo | 2 |
453 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling tufo. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
TuFo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, tuft (bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, spit; spittle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, cracher
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Basque, ( Lar , Hb ). "Tufo, bufada, pufada, tufoa " Lar . "Bouffée" Hb .
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)
- Peter Tufob. 1938DEformer US ambassador to Hungary
- Laura Tufob. 2001CHSwiss association football player
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 453 | #46,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 450 | #44,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 429 | #52,263 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 37 | #23,367 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
| 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 3
- 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
- What does the name TuFo mean, and where does it come from?
- foul odor, stench Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce TuFo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtufoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does TuFo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 453 people named TuFo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled TuFo.
- Where is TuFo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, TuFo is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 227 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name TuFo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named TuFo in 2010, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tufoThe 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, “TuFo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.