Tolliver
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tolliver is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 12,128 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Anglicized from the occupational surname Tagliaferro “ironcutter”. Tolliver is also written Толливер in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 85Mfew recordsas Толливер
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 Tolliver 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
12,128 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tolliver in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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)Anglicized from the occupational surname Tagliaferro “ironcutter”
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tolliver is found
(measured from records)Tolliver 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 | 12,128 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Tolliver | 21 |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 85M | — | Tolliver | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | Tolliver | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 24 | Tolliver | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | listed | — | — |
12,128 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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Tolliverb. 1942USAmerican jazz trumpeter and composer
- Jimmie Tolliverb. 1975USAmerican former actor and ice hockey player
- Anthony Tolliverb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tolliver mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized from the occupational surname Tagliaferro “ironcutter” Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tolliver?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Tolliver, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tolliver. After it come Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tolliver most common?
- Tolliver is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tolliver?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,128 people named Tolliver in 2010, about 1 in 27 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/tolliverThe 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, “Tolliver” — ranked 2956th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.