Toscani
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Italian [in turn originating as an ethnonym]
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/toskani/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Toscani is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Italian [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Toscani is read(measured from records)
Toscani is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toscani in Spanish.
- English23%
A surname from Italian [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian15%
masculine plural of toscano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
forma pl. de Toscano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Toscano
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Portuguese13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toscani in Portuguese.
- French8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toscani in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- BRBrazil
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giovanni di Francesco Toscanib. 1372FRItalian painter (1372-1430)
- Cajetan Toscanib. 1742DEGerman painter (1742-1815)
- Anton Toscanib. 1901NLDutch race walker (1901-1984)
- Piero Toscanib. 1904ITItalian boxer (1904–1940)
- Bud Toscanib. 1909USAmerican football player (1909-1966)
- Marirosa Toscani Ballob. 1931ITItalian photographer (1931-2023)
- Oliviero Toscanib. 1942ITItalian photographer (1942–2025)
- Amy Toscanib. 1963USAmerican sculptor
- Stephan Toscanib. 1967DEGerman politician
- Lucas Toscanib. 1999ARArgentine field hockey player
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 366 | #22,394 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 336 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 242 | #83,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 196 | #88,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 156 | #112,568 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 109 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 49 | #51,457 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 33 | #25,467 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 30 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 26 | #44,339 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 22 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Toscani mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Italian [in turn originating as an ethnonym]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toscani?
- A machine transcription gives /toskani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Toscani have the most bearers?
- Toscani is most frequently recorded in Argentina.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toscaniThe 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, “Toscani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.