Tolosa

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/toˈlosa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Tolosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 13,265 people, counted by RENAPER.

  • ARArgentina1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 4.7K
  • ESSpain1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

13,265 people

Record sources
71 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Tolosa

  • Spanish:/toˈlosa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tolosa is found

(measured from records)

Tolosa 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 Tolosa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina13,2651 in 3.4K13KTolosa1
ES Spain3,4071 in 15K3.4KTolosa26
BR Brazil1,8351 in 115K1.8KTolosa71
US United States7581 in 439K790Tolosa44
UY Uruguay7231 in 4.7K723——

13,265 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Tolosa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Tolosà

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Tolosá

  • Amharic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written ቶሎሳ, ቶሎሣ, Tolosaa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tolósa

42 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)

Tolosa 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 Spanish, Toulouse (the capital city of Haute-Garonne department, France; the capital city of the region of Occitania)

    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)
18001850190019502000Josep Tolosa, b. 1846Ricardo Vidal, b. 1915Javier Tolosa, b. 1969

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Tolosa?
In Spanish /toˈlosa/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tolosa?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Tolosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tolosa. After it come Spain, Brazil, United States and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Tolosa most common?
Tolosa is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tolosa?
In Argentina, the national register counted 13,265 people named Tolosa, about 1 in 3.4 thousand 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, “Tolosa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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