Tovee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ON Tófi or ODa Tovi, a diminutive of pioðvaldr ‘nation ruler’; first attested Toui 1066 DB
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Tovee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.2Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.8Mfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 33Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈57 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ON Tófi or ODa Tovi, a diminutive of pioðvaldr ‘nation ruler’; first attested Toui 1066 DB
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where the surname Tovee is found
(measured from records)Tovee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 94 | Tovee | 46 |
| CA Canada | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Tovee | 22 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 33M | — | Tovee | 27 |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Tovee | 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: 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tovee mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Tófi or ODa Tovi, a diminutive of pioðvaldr ‘nation ruler’; first attested Toui 1066 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tovee?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 people named Tovee in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tovee. After it come Canada and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tovee?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 people in the United Kingdom have Tovee as their first surname, about 1 in 1.2 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toveeThe 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, “Tovee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.