The Tovar surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 32,760 people carried this name — #1,070 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 9,000 people counted. That is up 38% from 23,743 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,320 people named Tovar live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 69 people named Tovar.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
57 people named Tovar live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
21 people named Tovar is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Tovar in American newspapers,
1903–1933.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 12,386 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Tovar,
with a public archive behind them.
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Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos 1774–1852 · military officer -
Martin Tovar y Tovar 1827–1902 · painter -
Manuel Tovar y Chamorro 1844–1907 · writer -
Manuel Tovar y Conde 1847–1921 · drafter -
Antonio Tovar y Marcoleta 1847–1925 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 117 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tovar.
- Tournay 158 · U.S. census
- Tournier 139 · U.S. census
- Tourville 1,565 · U.S. census
- Tous 178 · U.S. census
- Toussaint 7,441 · U.S. census
- Toutant 426 · U.S. census
- Toye 1,140 · U.S. census
- Tozzi 1,199 · U.S. census
- Traber 414 · U.S. census
- Trabucco 699 · U.S. census
- Tracz 411 · U.S. census
- Trad 363 · U.S. census
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