Tindo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Active

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tindo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KEKenya≈1 in 519K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 629K

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.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

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:

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)

Active.

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tindo 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 Tindo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon≈1,700 est.≈1 in 16K—Tindo2
PH Philippines≈170 est.≈1 in 629K—Tindo5
BR Brazil1191 in 1.8M119Tindo24
KE Kenya≈100 est.≈1 in 519Klisted—1
NG Nigeria≈27 est.≈1 in 7.9Mlisted——

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

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

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Tanzania, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тиндо, Тіндо

28 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(measured from records)

Tindo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In rob, dream that one no longer recalls, dream that has a certain significance

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Tindo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—119#55,507

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tindo mean, and where does it come from?
Active. Recorded by The African book of names.
In which country does Tindo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Tindo in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tindo.
How common is the name Tindo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 119 people named Tindo, about 1 in 1.8 million 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, “Tindo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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