Tovâr
surname · Latin script
Tovâr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname. Recorded meaning: by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp. tovar (LL tofare, a deriv. of tofus tufa, porous stone).
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 286(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 867
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 286 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tovar in VE Venezuela, US United States, CO Colombia and 4 more.
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)
by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp. tovar (LL tofare, a deriv. of tofus tufa, porous stone).
Sources 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tovâr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #50 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | 764 | Tovar | 101 |
| CO Colombia | #129 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 867 | 34 | Tovar | 153 |
| US United States | — | 32,760 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Tovar | 369 |
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Tovar | 7 |
| PE Peru | #508 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Tovar | 83 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Tovar | 56 |
| SV El Salvador | #371 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Tovar | 28 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tovâr mean, and where does it come from?
- by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp. tovar (LL tofare, a deriv. of tofus tufa, porous stone). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Tovâr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Tovâr in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tovar.
- How common is the name Tovâr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,760 people named Tovâr in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Tovâr compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Tovâr is the 50th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Tovâr” — the 50th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.