Tuter

Name: Tuter: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/tuteɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated

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Tuter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
PLPoland1 in 7.7M
SGSingapore≈1 in 350K

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.

: United States (measured from records)
Record sources: 123 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 349K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Tueter

Locally spelled Tüter 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

recorded in Turkish

"Yiğitliği, cesareti sürdür" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

Cited for this meaning 1

TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Tuter 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.

Where Tuter is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	328	1 in 1M	381	Tuter	123
TR Türkiye	≈54 est.	≈1 in 1.5M	—	Tüter	7
CA Canada	≈53 est.	≈1 in 707K	—	Tuter	2
NL Netherlands	≈43 est.	≈1 in 402K	—	Tuter	5
ES Spain	≈36 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	Tuter	1
SG Singapore	≈18 est.	≈1 in 349K	—	Tuter	2

328 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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 names spelled this way

Tuter is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Turkish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom
Also written Tüter
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Tüter
Spanish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Colombia, Brazil
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Tüter
French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States
Also written Tüter
Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia
Also written Tüter
Polish name2 spellings in the group
Also written Tüter
Urdu surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye
Languages: Urdu, Hindi
Also written Tüter
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, United States
Also written Tüter

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Tuter 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 Latin, first-person singular present active subjunctive of tūtor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of tut (Etymology 1)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, "Yiğitliği, cesareti sürdür" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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

Molly Tuterb. 1975USFemale basketball 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

FormalDear Tuter,

InformalHello,

Evidence

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Tuter
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	381	#57,668
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	351	#54,880
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	328	#61,297
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Tuter?: In Turkish /tuteɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Tuter have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 328 people named Tuter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tuter.
How common is the name Tuter?: In the United States, the national register counted 328 people named Tuter in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tuter

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Tuter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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