Tìger

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tìger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham; Middx. see Tigar .

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 93K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 137K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M

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)

2,428 people, 2010

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tiger in US United States, IN India.

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(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Durham; Middx. see Tigar .

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tìger 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 Tìger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,4281 in 137K2.4KTiger22
FI Finland601 in 93K60—1
IN India101 in 133M10Tiger9
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8——
PL Poland41 in 9.6M4——
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

2,428 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tìger is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States

    Also written টাইগার, Tiger, Tigar, টাঁইঁগাঁরঁ, Tigre

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tìger under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tìger mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Durham; Middx. see Tigar . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
In which country does Tìger have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Tìger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiger.
Where is Tìger most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tìger is densest in Finland — about 1 in 93 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tìger?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,428 people named Tìger in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.

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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, “Tìger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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