Tunde

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Tunde is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Yoruba: short form of names meaning 'returns'.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 255
  • NGNigeria1 in 11K
  • USUnited States1 in 830K

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

≈39K

across 11 countries

Sources
147

8.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 255

Hungary

Meaning & origin

Yoruba: short form of names meaning 'returns'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Tunde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#7338,3891K rec.1 in 25538KTunde117
NG Nigeria#9406,8025.2K rec.Tunde54
GB United Kingdom527265 rec.Tunde79
RO Romania#982483294 rec.Tunde34
US United States4011.4K rec.1 in 830K401Tunde147
SE Sweden15213 rec.1 in 67K15213
IN India13226 rec.1Tunde7
ES Spain9263 rec.1 in 544K92Tunde23
IT Italy7277 rec.Tunde15
CA Canada4436 rec.Tunde26
DK Denmark301 in 196K30
NL Netherlands2929 rec.1 in 596K29Tunde10

Roughly 38K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 255). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages

  • Hungarian445K85%
  • English55K10%
  • Swahili9.2K2%
  • 2.2K1%
  • Amharic2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian445,48285%
English54,86310%
Swahili9,2002%
2,1521%
Amharic2,0011%

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

Tunde is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name96K records spelled Tunde7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Also written 'Tunde, Tundé, Tuñde, Tûnde, Túndé

  • Swahili given name20K records spelled Tunde5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom, Romania

    Also written Tünde, 'Tunde

  • Hungarian given name3.7K records spelled Tunde25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Nigeria, Germany, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, English, German

    Also written Tünde, Tuende, Tűnde, Tundé, Ťuńde

  • Hindi given name3.4K records spelled Tunde9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Tünde, Túnde, Tundé, Túndé

  • Amharic given name2.5K records spelled Tunde2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Romania, United Kingdom

    Also written Tünde

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Tunde4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Also written Tünde, Tundé, Túndé

  • Indonesian given name2.0K records spelled Tunde4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Romania, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tünde

  • French given name976 records spelled Tunde6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Nigeria, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Tünde, Tundé, Tündé, Tűnde

49 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

Tunde 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 Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of tundō

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

  • In Romanian, to crop, shear, clip, trim, prune, mow

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

  • In Estonian, partitive plural of tund

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

  • In Spanish, inflection of tundir:

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

  • In tpi, Tuesday

    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.

Over time

010203020102015202021 · 2015

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Tunde in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2008–2020
Yearrecords
200812
200913
201015
201117
201219
201320
201420
201521
201620
201721
201821
201921
202021

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)13 years between 2008–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1940196019802000Tunde Kelani, b. 1948Tissy, b. 1953Tunde Odunlade, b. 1954Tünde Handó, b. 1962Tunde Baiyewu, b. 1968Tunde Juhasz, b. 1969Tünde Szabó, b. 1974Tunde Adebimpe, b. 1975Tunde Adeniji, b. 1996Kriszta Incze, b. 1996

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

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Tunde
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020401#16,074
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020306#16,074
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)92#8,118
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)92#16,912
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)85#8,018
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)44#14,794
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)22#22,921
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202021
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201921
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201821
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201721
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201521

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 71 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tunde?
We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Tunde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Tunde have the most bearers?
We estimate about 38 thousand people bear Tunde in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tunde.
Where is Tunde most common?
Tunde is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 255 people carrying it.
How common is Tunde compared with other names?
In Hungary, Tunde is the 73rd most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Tunde a male or female name?
Tunde is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Tunde mean?
Recorded meaning: Yoruba: short form of names meaning 'returns'
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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, “Tunde” — the 73rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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