Tucan

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus)

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

/tuːkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • MDMoldova≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 900K

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.

Moldova (inferred from the name graph)

≈600 people, est.

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are 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)

recorded in Romanian

TUCÁN, tucani, s. m. Gen de păsări cățărătoare din regiunile tropicale ale Americii de Sud, cu ciocul mare și puternic și cu penajul viu colorat (Rhamphastos); pasăre din acest gen.

Sources 1

  • DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Tucan is read(measured from records)

Tucan is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English29%

    The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Turkish24%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tucan in Turkish.

  • Romanian9.8%

    TUCÁN, tucani, s. m. Gen de păsări cățărătoare din regiunile tropicale ale Americii de Sud, cu ciocul mare și puternic și cu penajul viu colorat (Rhamphastos); pasăre din acest gen.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

  • Spanish9.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tucan in Spanish.

  • Portuguese7.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tucan in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tucan 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 Tucan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MD Moldova≈600 est.≈1 in 5.6K1Tucan3
PH Philippines≈120 est.≈1 in 900K—Tucan1
TR Türkiye≈80 est.≈1 in 1M—Tucan13
BR Brazil361 in 5.9M36——
PL Poland341 in 1.1M25——
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted——

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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); e-services.md — living population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tucan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tučan

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Moldova, Italy

    Also written Țucan

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Tücan

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Tücan

  • Czech surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Tučan

42 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Tucan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—36#131,575
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25#79,248
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—9#147,451

Reference works 3

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 Tucan?
A machine transcription gives /tuːkən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Tucan mean?
In English, The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus).
In which country does Tucan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 601 people named Tucan in Moldova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tucan.
How common is the name Tucan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 36 people named Tucan, about 1 in 5.9 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, “Tucan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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