Tosin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma reduzida de Tosini
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/toʊsɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tosin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 185K
- USUnited States1 in 842K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
forma reduzida de Tosini
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tosin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #174 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Tosin | 119 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Tosin | 4 |
| US United States | — | 395 | 1 in 842K | 201 | Tosin | 203 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 185K | listed | Tosin | 124 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 367K | — | Tosin | 65 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 333K | — | Tosin | 14 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 12 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Tosin 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 Finnish, used to indicate a reservation, concession, or caveat; albeit; although; granted; but; however; true
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)
- Tosin Abasib. 1983USAmerican guitarist
- Tosin Ajibadeb. 1987NGNigerian writer and blogger
- Tosin Coleb. 1992USBritish actor
- Tosin Damilola Atolagbeb. 1994NGbadminton player
- Tosin Mehintib. 1994NGNigerian basketball player (born 1994)
- Tosin Abraham Omoyeleb. 1996NGNigerian association football player
- Tosin Adarabioyob. 1997GBEnglish association football player (born 1997)
- Tosin OshinowoNGNigerian architect, creative entrepreneur, public speaker and author.
- Tosin AribisalaNGNigerian musician
- Tosin SidoNGNigerian actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #10,572 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Tosin mean, and where does it come from?
- forma reduzida de Tosini Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Tosin?
- A machine transcription gives /toʊsɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tosin a male or female name?
- Tosin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tosin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 191 thousand people named Tosin in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tosin.
- How common is the name Tosin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 395 people named Tosin in 2020, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
- How common is Tosin compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Tosin is the 174th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tosin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tosinThe 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, “Tosin” — the 174th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.