Tumo

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Tumo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: first-person plural positive degree present of -wamo (“we are (inside there)”).

rarermore common
  • BWBotswana1 in 9.1K◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 48K
  • KEKenya1 in 1M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

1.6K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
21 ●

1.3K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

first-person plural positive degree present of -wamo (“we are (inside there)”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tumo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa—707799 rec.——Tumo21
NG Nigeria—3056 rec.—listedTumo8
KE Kenya—2889 rec.——Tumo10
IN India—2428 rec.—1Tumo3
PH Philippines—18115 rec.——Tumo6
US United States—1543 rec.——Tumo16
AU Australia—1213 rec.——Tumo8
BW Botswana#153943 rec.——Tumo9
CH Switzerland——4 rec.—10—4
PL Poland————4——
LS Lesotho——2 rec.—2—3

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi57434%
  • English45427%
  • Swahili26115%
  • Southern Sotho624%
  • English (South Africa)382%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi57434%
English45427%
Swahili26115%
Southern Sotho624%
English (South Africa)382%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tumo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name57 records spelled Tumo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Tumó

  • Amharic given name22 records spelled Tumo2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written ቱሞ

29 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●

Tumo 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.

  • Fame.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In kqr, field, especially dry rice field

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

  • In dtp, hill rice field

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

  • In gor, clothes louse

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

  • In tgb, swidden

    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●

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Tumo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202410#60,931
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#244,067
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#3,989
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19824—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19814—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19764—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19644—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19594—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19843—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19833—

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 55 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tumo?
Our records include 1,591 bearers of Tumo across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Tumo have the most bearers?
Tumo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled tumo.
How common is Tumo compared with other names?
In Botswana, Tumo is the 153rd most common given name of 293 given names recorded there.
Is Tumo a male or female name?
Tumo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Tumo mean?
Recorded meaning: first-person plural positive degree present of -wamo (“we are (inside there)”)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Tumo” — the 153rd most common given name in Botswana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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