Tocilă

surname · Latin script

Meaning: whetstone

Tocilă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 764K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 2.3M
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.9M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈28 people, est.

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 764K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tocila in RO Romania, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

whetstone

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tocilă 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.

Where Tocilă is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania≈28 est.≈1 in 764K—Tocila21
ES Spain221 in 2.3M22Tocila6
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3—2
US United States——listedTocila10
GB United Kingdom———Tocila7

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tocilă is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tocila, Toçila

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tocilă is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, TOCÍLĂ, tocile, s. f. Mașină compusă dintr-un disc abraziv acționat cu un mâner sau o pedală, cu care se ascut instrumentele de tăiat.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Tocilă mean, and where does it come from?
whetstone Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tocilă have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 people named Tocilă in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tocila.
How common is the name Tocilă?
In Spain, the national register counted 22 people named Tocilă, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.

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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, “Tocilă”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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