Toska

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/toʊskə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Toska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 11K
  • BZBelize≈1 in 25K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈830 people, est.

Sources
93 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Croatian

1° vištan < fustanela od platna, koji nose Arbanasi Toske

Sources 3

  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Toska 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 Toska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈830 est.≈1 in 75K—Toska10
TR Türkiye≈380 est.≈1 in 214K—Toska5
US United States3181 in 1M409Toska93
CH Switzerland2681 in 31K268Toska10
DE Germany≈180 est.≈1 in 445K—Toska49
XK Kosovo≈170 est.≈1 in 11K150—1
NO Norway1301 in 42K130—4
BZ Belize≈16 est.≈1 in 25K—Toska2

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Toska is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Tòskà, Țoșkă, Toskä

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Mexico, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tośka

  • Bulgarian given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Italy, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Тошка, Тоска, Tosca, Toshka, Toška

  • Macedonian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland

    Also written Тоска

  • Greek surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Τόσκα, Τοσκα, Tosca

33 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)

Toska is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, Kalenikov ziat' Toska, Vinnitsa craftsman. 1552.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, 1° vištan < fustanela od platna, koji nose Arbanasi Toske

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Basque, kaolin, white clay

    as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

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)

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 Ms Toska,
InformalHi Toska,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Toska
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020409#54,407
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010318#62,903
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024268#4,876
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000216#81,414
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—130#11,952
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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

How do you pronounce Toska?
A machine transcription gives /toʊskə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Toska have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 829 people named Toska in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toska.
How common is the name Toska?
In the United States, the national register counted 318 people named Toska in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million 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, “Toska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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