Tokar
surname · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tokar is a surname, most frequently recorded in Ukraine. In Djibouti it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male surname originating as an occupation.
- UAUkraine1 in 3.2K◐
- RURussia1 in 26K
- KZKazakhstan1 in 67K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.2K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 215 ●
- 1 in 17K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
125K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Токарь in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and 4 more and Токар in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male surname originating as an occupation
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #255 | 98,875 | 98K rec. | — | — | Токар | 38 |
| RU Russia | — | 36,089 | 9K rec. | — | — | Токарь | 120 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 3,292 | 3K rec. | — | — | Tokar | 24 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 1,427 | 336 rec. | — | 103 | Токарь | 23 |
| US United States | — | 1,332 | 11K rec. | 1 in 250K | 1.4K | Tokar | 215 |
| PL Poland | — | 888△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 43K | 888 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 635△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 17K | 644 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 596 | 559 rec. | — | — | Tokar | 39 |
| CA Canada | — | 423 | 398 rec. | — | — | Tokar | 54 |
| DE Germany | — | 316 | 280 rec. | — | — | Tokar | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | 207 | 200 rec. | — | — | Tokar | 19 |
| DJ Djibouti | #1 | 145 | 936 rec. | — | — | Tokar | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian18K36%
- English11K23%
- Polish5.5K11%
- Czech4.5K9%
- Turkish3.2K6%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 18,309 | 36% |
| English | 11,347 | 23% |
| Polish | 5,507 | 11% |
| Czech | 4,470 | 9% |
| Turkish | 3,203 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tokar 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 Russian, var of Tokar'.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swedish, indefinite plural of tok
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ami, a ladder, stairs
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ami, stairs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkmen, Keýgiň owlugy ýaly gözel gyz bolsun.
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 |
| 1911 | 8 |
| 1921 | 7 |
| 1931 | 6 |
| 1941 | 13 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1981 | 3 |
| 1991 | 3 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Norman Tokarb. 1919USAmerican film director, actor (1919-1979)
- Brian Tokarb. 1955American environmental activist and author
- Eliot Tokarb. 1958USAmerican practitioner of Tibetan medicine
- Marian Yuriovych Tokarb. 1973historian, political scientist, and sociologist
- Olena Tokarb. 1987UAUkrainian opera singer
- Moishe TokarRussian revolutionary
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●
Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,065 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 888 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 888 | #3,559 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 803 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 803 | #3,859 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 180 | #5,889 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 179 | #9,460 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 80 | #32,427 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 80 | #32,124 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #20,163 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tokar?
- We estimate roughly 3.2 thousand people bear Tokar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tokar have the most bearers?
- Tokar is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled токар.
- How common is Tokar compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Tokar is the 255th most common surname of 1,166,671 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Tokar mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male surname originating as an occupation
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tokarThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tokar” — the 255th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.