Toise

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Toise is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Venezuela.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Toise is read(measured from records)

Toise is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English46%

    A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish26%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Toise in Spanish.

  • French6.8%

    toise (former French unit of length)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Toise counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Toise is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela—Toise4
US United States—Toise3

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.

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)

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

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Toeîsè, Töîsè

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Toise 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 Irish, alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Toise under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Toise mean, and where does it come from?
A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Toise have the most bearers?
Toise is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled toise.

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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, “Toise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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