Tawfik

surname · Latin script

Meaning: divine guidance

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tɑfɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tawfik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 489K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 115K
  • NONorway1 in 119K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

680 people, 2010

Sources
172 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

divine guidance

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tawfik 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 Tawfik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6801 in 489K1KTawfik172
NL Netherlands811 in 213K81Tawfik11
ES Spain661 in 758K113Tawfik5
DK Denmark511 in 115K51—1
NO Norway461 in 119K46—2
CH Switzerland331 in 255K33—5
FI Finland151 in 371K52—2

680 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Tawfik is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Tunisia

    Also written Tåwfïk, Tâwfîk, Táwfik, Tàwfik, Ťãwfïķ

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tăwfik, Ţâŵfĭķ, Tâwfik, Tàwfik, Tåwfik

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tawfīḳ

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Morocco

    Also written Ťâwfîk, Ťãwfïķ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Tãwfïk

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland

    Also written Tâwḟîk, Täwfïk, Ťãwfîķ, Tãwfîk

43 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)

1900195020002050Hassan Hosni Tawfik, b. 1911Galal Tawfik, b. 1925Abdel Nasser Tawfik, b. 1967Ahmed Tawfik, b. 1991Malak Tawfik, b. 2008

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Formalالسيد Tawfik المحترم،Dear Mr. Tawfik, (English)
Informalمرحباً Tawfik،Hi Tawfik, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Tawfik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#24,934
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010680#33,530
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000479#42,604
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200781#22,381
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—66#36,862
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—66#36,589
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—51#10,376
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—46#27,290
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202433#25,467
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#43,029
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Tawfik mean, and where does it come from?
divine guidance Recorded by African Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Tawfik?
A machine transcription gives /tɑfɪk/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Tawfik have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 680 people named Tawfik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tawfik.
Where is Tawfik most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tawfik is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 115 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tawfik?
In the United States, the national register counted 680 people named Tawfik in 2010, about 1 in 489 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, “Tawfik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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