Tortosa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Tortosa (a city in Catalonia, Spain)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/t̪ort̪osa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tortosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 6K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 39K
- ARArgentina1 in 48K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
8,294 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tourtouse in FR France.
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)
Tortosa (a city in Catalonia, Spain)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tortosa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #492 | 8,294 | 1 in 6K | 8.3K | Tortosa | 138 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Tortosa | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 955 | 1 in 48K | 955 | Tortosa | 48 |
| FR France | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 121 | Tourtouse | 3 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Tortosa | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 148 | 1 in 23K | 148 | Tortosa | 12 |
8,294 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tortosa 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 Occitan, Tourtouse (a village in Ariège department, Occitania, France)
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)
- Fernando Garrido Tortosab. 1821ESSpanish politician and writer
- Felip Farinós i Tortosab. 1826ESSpanish sculptor
- Francisco Toda y Tortosab. 1900ESpolitician
- Francisco García Tortosab. 1937ESliterary critic and translator
- Miguel López Tortosab. 1946ESSpanish politician
- Silvia Tortosab. 1947ESSpanish actress
- Raül Tortosab. 1979ESSpanish actor
- Ana Oncina Tortosab. 1989ESSpanish comic book illustrator
- Florent Tortosab. 1989FRFrench basketball player (born 1989)
- Jesús Tortosa Cabrerab. 1997ESSpanish taekwondo athlete
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 13 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.3K | #671 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.3K | #671 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 955 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 164 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 104 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
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 Tortosa mean, and where does it come from?
- Tortosa (a city in Catalonia, Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tortosa?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪ort̪osa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tortosa have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Tortosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tortosa.
- Where is Tortosa most common?
- Tortosa is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tortosa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,294 people named Tortosa, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Tortosa compared with other names?
- In Spain, Tortosa is the 492nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tortosaThe 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, “Tortosa” — the 492nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.