Tro
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A type of spike fiddle made from traditionally used in Cambodia and played vertically
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tro is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 72K(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 101K
- ATAustria≈1 in 154K
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 Tro 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 named Troe, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Troe in US United States, DE Germany, CD Congo - Kinshasa and Trö in AT Austria.
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)
A type of spike fiddle made from traditionally used in Cambodia and played vertically.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Troe | 1 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 590 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 221 | 1 in 226K | 221 | — | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 493K | — | Troe | 21 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 129 | Troe | 87 |
| NO Norway | 76 | 1 in 72K | 76 | — | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Trö | 7 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Tro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, ash (solid remains of a fire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, belief (that something is true or real (without being perfectly certain))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, an oblong trough to give livestock drink and fodder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Tarao.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, era, period, generation
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nils Trob. 1945NONorwegian saxophonist
- Jan Trob. 1948NONorwegian musician
- Per Trob. 1954NONorwegian musician
- Silvia Tro Santaféb. 1970ESSpanish mezzo-soprano
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 590 | #852 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 221 | #15,352 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 221 | #15,328 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #19,100 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Tro mean, and where does it come from?
- A type of spike fiddle made from traditionally used in Cambodia and played vertically. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 387 people named Troe in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tro is densest in Norway — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 221 people named Tro, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/troThe 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, “Tro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.