Toso

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 word·kaikki.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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Italian7.9%

  do lat. tonsus; apelativo para rapaz/jovem ou servo, também ligado a terreno desmatado

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  first-person singular present indicative of tosare

  as a word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Toso is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Tošo

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Spain

  Also written Tosō, Tošo

• Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Italy

  Also written Toşo, Tošo

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Tošo

• Bulgarian given name23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, United States, Italy

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Russian

  Also written Tosho, Тошо, Tošo, Tošho

• Thai surname24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written โตโส, โต๊ะสอ, โต๊ะสอี, ตอสอ, ตอซอ

38 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.

• Otello Tosob. 1914ITItalian actor (1914-1966)
• Mario Tosob. 1950ITItalian Roman Catholic bishop (1950- )
• 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).

29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /toso/; in Portuguese /tozu/; in Italian /ˈto.so/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Toso mean?

In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of toser

Which countries have the most people with the surname Toso?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Toso in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toso. After it come Brazil, Argentina, United States and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Toso?

In Brazil, the national register counted 1,926 people named Toso, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.