Tus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/second-person singular past historic of taire
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 33K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 746K
- PLPoland1 in 1.4M
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 Tus itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
130 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first/second-person singular past historic of taire
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tus 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.
130 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Tus 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 otk, onomatopoeic sound used of striking something soft
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In dra-nor-pro, to grunt, snort
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Italian, initialism of Tasso Ufficiale di Sconto (“official bank rate”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fax, apocopic form of túas (“your”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mww, classifier for long objects (such as rods or sticks) and animals or beings
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 130 | #6,277 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 124 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 61 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #108,549 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #123,967 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #124,914 |
Reference works 1
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 Tus mean, and where does it come from?
- first/second-person singular past historic of taire Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tus?
- A machine transcription gives /tus/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tus have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 130 people named Tus, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tus most common?
- Tus is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tus?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 130 people named Tus in 2021, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tusThe 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, “Tus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.