Toke
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a male given name, medieval diminutive of Thorkild
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/toʊk/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Toke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 210K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
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 Toke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
139 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Toeke in NZ New Zealand.
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)a male given name, medieval diminutive of Thorkild
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Toke is read
(measured from records)Toke is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish59%
a male given name, medieval diminutive of Thorkild
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toke in Hindi.
- English30%
A gratuity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Toke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 139 | Toke | 98 |
| IN India | 40 | 1 in 33M | 40 | Toke | 25 |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Toeke | 15 |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 1 | Toke | 37 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 2 |
139 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Toke is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, transparent, clean, fair (skin), light, spotless, unspotted, pure (water).
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In enm, first/third-person singular past indicative of taken; took
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of とけ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, chameleon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Henricus Tokeb. 1390DEGerman canon
- Nicholas Tokeb. 1588GB(1588-1680)
- John Tokeb. 1671GBEnglish politician (1671-1746)
- David Tokeb. 1952GBpolitical scientist
- Valelia Muni Tokeb. 1975FRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4136-0697
- Toma Tokeb. 1985Tongan rugby union player
- Soane TokeFRformer king of Uvea
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 128 | #136,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 40 | #51,545 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 28 | #17,651 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #48,334 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Toke mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, medieval diminutive of Thorkild Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toke?
- In English /toʊk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Toke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 139 people named Toke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toke.
- Where is Toke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toke is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Toke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named Toke in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Toke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tokeThe 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, “Toke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.