Tukes
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tukes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably an altered form of Tuke.
- USUnited States1 in 468K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 19K
- IEIreland≈1 in 261K
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably an altered form of Tuke.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tukes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Tukes | 2 |
| US United States | — | 711 | 1 in 468K | 711 | Tukes | 154 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Tukes | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Tukes | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Tukes | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Tukes | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Tukes | 1 |
| AI Anguilla | #299 | — | — | — | Tukes | 2 |
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. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 711 | #32,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 709 | #34,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 622 | #34,459 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Tukes mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an altered form of Tuke. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Tukes?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tukes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Tukes in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tukes.
- How common is the name Tukes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 711 people named Tukes in 2010, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
- How common is Tukes compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Tukes is the 299th most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tukes?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tukesThe 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 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, “Tukes” — the 299th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.