Tovar

At the 2020 census, 32,379 Americans bore the surname Tovar — 1,064th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,231.

By the numbers

People: 32,379
Rank: 1,064th
How common: 1 in 9,231
Per 100,000: 10.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tovar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 93.6%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Tovar

Lupita Tovar (1910–2016)Mexican actress
Hernando Tovar (1938–2026)Colombian footballer
Martin Tovar y Tovar (1827–1902)Venezuelan painter

People named Tovar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.