Tsar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tsar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 39Kas Цар(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 264Kas Царь
- NGNigeria≈1 in 298K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tsar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 298K (inferred from the name graph)
2,492 named Car, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Царь in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Цар in UA Ukraine and Зар in KG Kyrgyzstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tsar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 2,492as Car | 1 in 1.7K | 2.5K | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Цар | 27 |
| US United States | 767as Car | 1 in 434K | 1.1K | Tsar | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Tsar | 2 |
| RU Russia | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Царь | 96 |
| SI Slovenia | 363as Car | 1 in 5.8K | 363 | — | — |
| BY Belarus | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Царь | 10 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Зар | 9 |
2,492 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tsar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, alternative form of czar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, czar (Russian nobility)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a tsar or czar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xto, hand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tsar?
- A machine transcription gives /zɑɹ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What are other forms of the name Tsar?
- In the etymology graph, Tzar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tsar have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Car, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tsar?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,492 people named Car in 2021, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tsar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tsarThe 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, “Tsar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.