Names of Tokelau TK

Names in Tokelau are recorded in English and tkl, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in English, tkl.

Population
1.6K
DBuilt from 10 cited works.

No name data for this country beyond its languages.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Tokelau

2 naming traditions are in use in Tokelau, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Tokelau

Every record we hold for Tokelau — 0 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Tokelau at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Tokelau?
No — 2 are described on this page (Western Polynesian Outlier, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Tokelau”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/TK (data snapshot 2026-09-12).