<P> Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from), is a surname that was adopted in the Middle - Ages by a Castilian noble house of Visigothic ancestry that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III . It has since spread to several Spanish and a few Portuguese branches . </P> <P> The Tovar surname in the Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded there by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin . </P>

Where does the last name tobar come from