Tosca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: tuff
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/toska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tosca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 65K
- ESSpain1 in 236K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
265 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of tosco
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tosca is read(measured from records)
Tosca is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish68%
tuff
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
A pear cultivar
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tosca 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 265 | 1 in 1.3M | 350 | Tosca | 168 |
| BR Brazil | 219 | 1 in 967K | 219 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 212 | 1 in 236K | 212 | Tosca | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 104 | 1 in 437K | 104 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 52 | 1 in 65K | 52 | — | — |
265 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Tosca 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 Portuguese, feminine singular of tosco
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, < rus mociia tristete". 1. Toscul Toader, stolnic, mold., in 1502 olytine satul Solesti. 2. Cf. Tosca, Badea (P Bor 83) si Tosculelu, N. (VM).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Originaria della Tuscia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Catalan, deposit, incrustation, scale
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)
- Tomás Vicente Toscab. 1651ESSpanish architect (1651-1723)
- Carlos Toscab. 1953USCuban baseball manager
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 51 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 265 | #73,215 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 262 | #78,629 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 219 | #34,145 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 212 | #15,825 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 212 | #15,794 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 209 | #83,618 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 104 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 52 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Tosca come from?
- feminine singular of tosco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tosca?
- A machine transcription gives /toska/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Tosca mean?
- In Spanish, tuff
- In which country does Tosca have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 265 people named Tosca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tosca.
- Where is Tosca most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tosca is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 65 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tosca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 265 people named Tosca in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tosca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toscaThe 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, “Tosca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.