Tuten
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtjutən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tuten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 130K
- GHGhana≈1 in 6.9K
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tüten in TR Türkiye.
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.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuten 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #520 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Tuten | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,566 | 1 in 130K | 2.6K | Tuten | 238 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Tüten | 23 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Tuten | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 14 | Tuten | 22 |
| LR Liberia | #452 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tuten | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tuten | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Tuten 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, definite singular of tut (Etymology 1)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite plural of tut
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, to toot, to hoot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, plural of tút
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, to honk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, this
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)
- J. Russell Tutenb. 1911USAmerican politician (1911-1968)
- Frederic Tutenb. 1936USAmerican novelist, short story writer and essayist
- Rick Tutenb. 1965USplayer of American football (1965-2017)
- Melvin Tutenb. 1971USAmerican football player
- Bhayshul Tutenb. 2003USAmerican football player
- Belle Stoddard TutenUSAmerican history professor
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,303 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Tuten?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtjutən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tuten have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Tuten in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tuten.
- How common is the name Tuten?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,566 people named Tuten in 2010, about 1 in 130 thousand residents.
- How common is Tuten compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Tuten is the 520th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tutenThe 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, “Tuten” — the 520th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.