Tokum
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tokum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a numdah, under-saddle felt.
- THThailand≈1 in 216Kas โตขำ(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tokum 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 named โตขำ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as โตขำ
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled โตขำ in TH Thailand.
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 numdah, under-saddle felt
Sources 1
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tokum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 216K | #204,562 | โตขำ | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | — | 4 | — | — |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Tokum is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, 1 saddle blanket 2 to saddle
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In trk-pro, wheel hoop
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Faroese, dative plural indefinite of tok
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xgn-pro, saddle pad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, a numdah, under-saddle felt
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In xgn-pro, 1 попона 2 седлать
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tokum mean, and where does it come from?
- a numdah, under-saddle felt Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
- In which country does Tokum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 319 people named โตขำ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tokum?
- Mondonomo estimates about 320 people in Thailand have โตขำ as their first surname, about 1 in 216 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Tokum?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tokumThe 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, “Tokum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.