Toso
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular present indicative of toser
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/toso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Toso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 47K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 110K
- ITItaly≈1 in 19K
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)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular present indicative of tosar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Toso is read(measured from records)
Toso is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish34%
first-person singular present indicative of toser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toso in English.
- Portuguese14%
first-person singular present indicative of tosar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.9%
do lat. tonsus; apelativo para rapaz/jovem ou servo, também ligado a terreno desmatado
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
first-person singular present indicative of tosare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Toso 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Toso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Toso | 32 |
| CN China | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Toso | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 1,926 | 1 in 110K | 1.9K | Toso | 67 |
| AR Argentina | 978 | 1 in 47K | 978 | Toso | 63 |
| US United States | 760 | 1 in 438K | 760 | Toso | 70 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Toso | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 82 | 1 in 41K | 82 | Toso | 13 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gerolamo De Franchi Tosob. 1522ITpolitician (1522-1586)
- Gerolamo De Franchi Tosob. 1585ITDoge of the Republic of Genoa (1585-1668)
- Giacomo De Franchi Tosob. 1590ITpolitician
- Federico De Franchib. 1642ITnot in their usual name136th Doge of the Republic of Genoa
- Cesare De Franchib. 1666ITnot in their usual namepolitician
- Anna Maria Tosob. 1901ITItalian para athletics competitor
- Otello Tosob. 1914ITItalian actor (1914-1966)
- Mario Tosob. 1950ITItalian Roman Catholic bishop (1950- )
- Jean-Raymond Tosob. 1952FRcyclist
- Dino Tosob. 1969ITItalian-Dutch motorsport engineer
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 29 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,044 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 978 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 760 | #30,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 699 | #34,822 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 673 | #32,267 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 82 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Toso come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of tosar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toso?
- A machine transcription gives /toso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Toso mean?
- In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of toser
- In which country does Toso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Toso in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toso.
- How common is the name Toso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,926 people named Toso, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Toso?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tosoThe 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, “Toso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.