Tancara
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/tankaɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tancara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 132K
- CLChile≈1 in 150K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Tancara 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 345 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 136 | #50,053 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tancara?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /tankaɾa/; in Portuguese /tɐ̃kaɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Tancara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Tancara in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tancara.
- How common is the name Tancara?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 345 people named Tancara, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Tancara compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Tancara is the 211th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tancara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tancaraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Tancara” — the 211th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.