Tobar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘well’; rare name noted by Loughead
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/toβaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tobar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 72nd most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 589(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.5K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.7K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 589 (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘well’; rare name noted by Loughead.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tobar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #219 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Tobar | 112 |
| CO Colombia | #484 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 11 | Tobar | 114 |
| SV El Salvador | #93 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 589 | — | Tobar | 57 |
| GT Guatemala | #72 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Tobar | 48 |
| EC Ecuador | #296 | 10,068 | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | Tobar | 69 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tobar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Scottish Gaelic, A cistern, a fountain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, well
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "(V-gip), estalactita" A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Miguel Antonio Caro Tovarb. 1842COnot in their usual namePresident of Colombia (1842-1909)
- Pili Tobarb. 1901USWhite House Deputy Communications Director in the Biden administration
- Luis Alberto Luna Tobarb. 1923ECEcuadorian Catholic Archbishop (1923–2017)
- Armando Tobarb. 1938CLChilean footballer (1938-2016)
- Carlos Enrique Lorca Tobarb. 1944CLvictim of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
- Marcelo Tobarb. 1977MXMexican screenwriter
- Roberto Tobarb. 1978CLChilean association football referee
- Héctor Ávalosb. 1978SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran footballer
- Rodrigo Britob. 1983CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Rusherkingb. 2000ARnot in their usual nameArgentine rapper
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tobar mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘well’; rare name noted by Loughead. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Tobar?
- A machine transcription gives /toβaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tobar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Tobar in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tobar.
- How common is the name Tobar?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 10,068 people named Tobar in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Tobar compared with other names?
- In Chile, Tobar is the 219th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tobarThe 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, “Tobar” — the 219th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.