Tovan

surname · Latin script

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

Tovan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 119K(measured from records)
  • CNChina≈1 in 208K
  • CACanada≈1 in 1.6M

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,700 people, est.

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tovan 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.

Where Tovan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈6,700 est.≈1 in 208K—Tovan1
US United States≈53 est.≈1 in 6.3M5Tovan32
NO Norway461 in 119K46—2
CA Canada≈24 est.≈1 in 1.6M1Tovan7
GB United Kingdom≈23 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Tovan1
NL Netherlands≈7 est.≈1 in 2.5M—Tovan2

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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tovan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Tôvan, Tôvăn, Tốvân

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Tovan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19835—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20231#2,230

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Tovan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Tovan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tovan.
Where is Tovan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tovan is densest in Norway — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tovan?
In Norway, the national register counted 46 people named Tovan, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.

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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, “Tovan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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