Tolen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tolen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 313K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 123K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 176K
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 Tolen 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
1,064 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Toelen in BE Belgium.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tolen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,064 | 1 in 313K | 1.1K | Tolen | 193 |
| BE Belgium | 451as Toelen | 1 in 26K | 451 | Toelen | 44 |
| PH Philippines | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Tolen | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Tolen | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 461K | 72 | Tolen | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | 140 | 1 in 123K | 140 | Tolen | 16 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Tolen | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 209K | — | Tolen | 1 |
1,064 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Tolen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, plural of tool (“tool”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of toldre
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Tolen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Tolen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tolen.
- Where is Tolen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tolen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 123 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tolen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,064 people named Tolen in 2010, about 1 in 313 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tolen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tolenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tolen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.