Toki
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia nippon
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈtoʊki/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Toki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 948K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 948K (inferred from the name graph)
351 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia nippon.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Toki is read
(measured from records)Toki is one spelling over 2 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.
- English47%
The Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia nippon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Japanese; child of Toki
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- Japanese26%
Rōmaji transcription of とき
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Toki 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 | 351 | 1 in 948K | 436 | Toki | 113 |
| IN India | 14 | 1 in 95M | 14 | — | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Toki | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | — | Toki | 50 |
351 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Toki 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 Swedish, Se Tyko.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In xgn-pro, comfort, order
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Basque, place
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)- Toki Yorisadab. 1271JPJapanese military governor of Mino in the 14th century
- Toki Shigeyorib. 1442JPLeading military commander during the Muromachi period in Mino Province
- Akira Tokib. 1892JPJapanese politician (1892-1979)
- Toki Masazōb. 1893JPJapanese economist
- Tatsuo Tokib. 1904JPJapanese athletics competitor
- Hiroshi Tokib. 1944JPpolitical scientist
- Satoshi Tokib. 1946JPJapanese teacher
- Hidefumi Tokib. 1950JPJapanese saxophone player, composer, arranger, producer (1950-2021)
- Kōka Tokib. 1953JPJapanese calligrapher
- Shun'ichi Tokib. 1989JPJapanese voice actor
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 436 | #51,542 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 351 | #57,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 306 | #61,376 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 37 | #7,422 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #97,493 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #54,973 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,168 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Toki mean, and where does it come from?
- The Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia nippon. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toki?
- In English /ˈtoʊki/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Toki have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 351 people named Toki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toki.
- Where is Toki most common?
- Toki is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 948 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Toki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Toki in 2010, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tokiThe 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, “Toki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.