Tovar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tobar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tovar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 286(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 867
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 286 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp. tovar (LL tofare, a deriv. of tofus tufa, porous stone).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tovar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #50 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | 764 | Tovar | 101 |
| CO Colombia | #129 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 867 | 34 | Tovar | 153 |
| US United States | — | 32,760 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Tovar | 369 |
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Tovar | 7 |
| PE Peru | #508 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Tovar | 83 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Tovar | 56 |
| SV El Salvador | #371 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Tovar | 28 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates 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)
Tovar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Tovar, Spain
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Czech, product, commodity, goods
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, cargo, burden, load
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, good, commodity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, goods
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)
- Martin Tovar y Tovarb. 1827VEVenezuelan painter (1827-1902)
- Lupita Tovarb. 1910MXMexican actress (1910-2016)
- Antonio Tovarb. 1911ESSpanish historian and linguist (1911-1985)
- César Tovarb. 1940VEbaseball player (1940-1994)
- Bernardo Tovarb. 1951COColombian sport shooter
- Raúl Larab. 1973MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Daniel Tovarb. 1989MXMexican actor
- Jealisse Andrea Tovar Velásquezb. 1993CO2nd runner up Miss Universe 2016
- Oliver Tovarb. 1997ECEcuadorian footballer
- Elena TovarUSMexican-American actress
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)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 33K | #1,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 32K | #1,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 24K | #1,370 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 34 | #82 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Tovar come from?
- by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp. tovar (LL tofare, a deriv. of tofus tufa, porous stone). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Tovar?
- A machine transcription gives /tobar/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Tovar mean?
- Recorded meaning: by a quarry of pumice stone, OSp.
- In which country does Tovar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Tovar in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tovar.
- How common is the name Tovar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,760 people named Tovar in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Tovar compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Tovar is the 50th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tovarThe 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, “Tovar” — the 50th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.