Toku
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of とく
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/toku/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Toku is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 500K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 2.5M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 501K (inferred from the name graph)
524 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Rōmaji transcription of とく
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Toku is read
(measured from records)Toku is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Turkish29%
Tokmak, değnek.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Japanese22%
Rōmaji transcription of とく
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toku in Hindi.
- English11%
Clipping of tokusatsu.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Toku 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 524 | 1 in 2.5M | 524 | — | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Toku | 24 |
| BR Brazil | 77 | 1 in 2.7M | 77 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 12 | — | — |
524 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Toku 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 trk-pro, rite, ceremony
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In trk-pro, buckle
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Czech, genitive/dative/vocative/locative singular of tok
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)- Sanpo Tokub. 1887JPJapanese judoka
- Takayoshi Tokushimab. 1934JPnot in their usual nameJapanese literary editor
- Hisashi Tokushimab. 1968JPnot in their usual nameJapanese boxer
- Farat Tokub. 1980DEGerman association football player and manager
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 524 | #8,871 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 77 | #76,923 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #3,729 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12 | #127,230 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #167,128 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Toku mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of とく Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toku?
- In Turkish /toku/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Toku have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 524 people named Toku, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Toku?
- In India, the national register counted 524 people named Toku, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Toku?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tokuThe 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, “Toku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.