Moscoso
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of the places, mainly in Galicia, called Moscoso, named with an adjectival derivative of mosca ‘fly’, denoting a place where there were many flies
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/moskoso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moscoso is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ecuador.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
habitational name from any of the places, mainly in Galicia, called Moscoso, named with an adjectival derivative of mosca ‘fly’, denoting a place where there were many flies.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moscoso counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | — | 7.8K | — |
| ES Spain | — | 3.2K | — |
| US United States | — | 2.9K | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 965 | — |
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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Moscoso 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, de Mosca com suf. adjetival -oso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In krj, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], common in Antique
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, a parish of Pazos de Borbén, Pontevedra, Galicia
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pío de Tristánb. 1773PEnot in their usual nameViceroy of Peru
- Javier Moscosob. 1934ESSpanish politician
- Victor Moscosob. 1936ESspanish-american artist (born 1936)
- Mireya Moscosob. 1946PAPanama's first female president
- Gustavo Moscosob. 1955CLChilean footballer
- Carlos Raúl Morales Moscosob. 1970GTGuatemalan diplomat
- Guillermo Moscosob. 1983VEVenezuelan baseball player
- Jean Carlos López Moscosob. 1993DODominican association football player
- Darwin Lomb. 1997GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan footballer
- Txema MoscosoESSpanish voice actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Moscoso mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of the places, mainly in Galicia, called Moscoso, named with an adjectival derivative of mosca ‘fly’, denoting a place where there were many flies. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Moscoso?
- A machine transcription gives /moskoso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Moscoso have the most bearers?
- Moscoso is most frequently recorded in Ecuador.
What do you want to know about Moscoso?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moscosoThe 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, “Moscoso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.