Names of Tonga TO

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

Written in Tongan, English.

Population
106K
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
8
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 8 name forms in our corpus.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

How names work in Tonga

2 naming traditions are in use in Tonga, 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 Tonga

Scripts & spelling

Tevitagiven name●
Strudwicksurname●
Fifitasurname●
Fonuasurname●
Rustemeyersurname●
The best-attested names in Tonga, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

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 Tonga?
No — 2 are described on this page (Tongan, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

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