Tolkin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tolkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 55Kas Толкин(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 62Kas Толкин
- RURussia≈1 in 3Mas Толкин
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 Tolkin 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.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 named Толкин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kazakhstan, est., as Толкин
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Толкин in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Толкін 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tolkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 56 | Толкин | 24 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Толкин | 4 |
| RU Russia | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Толкин | 54 |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Толкін | 5 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | — | — | Толкин | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 75 | — | 1 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Tolkin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tuw-pro, dream (seen while sleeping)
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)
- Michael Tolkinb. 1950USAmerican writer
- Terry Tolkinb. 1959USAmerican music executive
- Neil Tolkinb. 2000CACanadian screenwriter
- John Tolkinb. 2002USAmerican soccer player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
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
- In which country does Tolkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 people named Толкин in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tolkin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 350 people in Kazakhstan have Толкин as their first given name, about 1 in 55 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 Tolkin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tolkinThe 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, “Tolkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.