Tokarev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑkɝɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tokarev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Russian Токарев (Tokarev).
- RURussia≈1 in 4.3Kas Токарев(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 19Kas Токарев
- EEEstonia≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tokarev itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 named Токарев, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, 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 Токарев in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and Токарєв in UA Ukraine.
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)
Russian Токарев (Tokarev)
Sources 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tokarev 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #387 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Токарев | 163 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Токарєв | 33 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Токарев | 6 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Токарев | 18 |
| US United States | — | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 174 | Tokarev | 96 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Tokarev | 11 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fedor Tokarevb. 1871RURussian and Soviet weapons designer (1871-1968)
- Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarevb. 1899RURussian historian (1899-1985)
- Dmitry Tokarevb. 1902RUSoviet politician
- Boris Tokarevb. 1927RUathletics competitor (1927–2002)
- Willi Tokarevb. 1934RURussian and former expatriate Russian-American singer (1934—2019)
- Aleksandr Tokarevb. 1946RUSoviet and Russian artist, director, screenwriter, sculptor
- Boris Tokarevb. 1947RUSoviet and Russian actor, film director, producer
- Nikolai Tokarevb. 1950RURussian businessman (born 1950)
- Valeri Tokarevb. 1952RURussian cosmonaut
- Anton Tokarevb. 1984RUfigure skater
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 174 | #108,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 155 | #113,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Tokarev mean, and where does it come from?
- Russian Токарев (Tokarev) Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Tokarev?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑkɝɛv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Tokarev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Токарев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tokarev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 155 people named Tokarev in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Tokarev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Tokarev is the 387th most common surname of 1,952,411 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/tokarevThe 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, “Tokarev” — the 387th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.