The surname Tobar
A Spanish surname, carried by 7,056 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T160
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Tobar.
One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 7,056 people named Tobar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,756 Americans. That is up 43% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,933.
Who is named Tobar
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Tobar identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 8.9% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 87%
- White (not Hispanic) 8.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Two or more races 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tobar has the Soundex code T160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T160.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Tobar come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Tobar.
- How common is the surname Tobar?
- 7,056 people in the United States had the surname Tobar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,756 Americans. It ranked 4,977th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tobar?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Tobar identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 8.9% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tobar getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,933 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,056 in 2010, up 43%.