Tosta
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: toasted sandwich toastie
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɔʃtɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tosta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 17K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 497K
- ESSpain1 in 685K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
12,617 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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)
toasted sandwich toastie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tosta is read(measured from records)
Tosta is one spelling over 3 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.
- Portuguese71%
toasted sandwich toastie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
toast (snack)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tosta in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tosta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 12,617 | 1 in 17K | 13K | — | — |
| US United States | 292 | 1 in 1.1M | 343 | Tosta | 4 |
| PL Poland | 77 | 1 in 497K | 39 | Tosta | 11 |
| ES Spain | 73 | 1 in 685K | 73 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 9 | — | 3 |
12,617 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Tosta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma fem. de Tosto
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Faroese, accusative singular of tosti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, feminine singular of tuosto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, genitive singular of tost
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)
- Francisco Tosta Garcíab. 1846VEVenezuelan military officer and writer
- Joaquim Inácio Tostab. 1856BRBrazilian lawyer and politician, federal deputy for the state of Bahia
- Virgilio Tostab. 1922VEVenezuelan writer
- Walter Tostab. 1956BRBrazilian politician
- Sheena Tostab. 1982USAmerican hurdler
- Luiz Henrique Tostab. 1985BRBrazilian footballer
- Emily Tostab. 1998DODominican actress
- Antonio Luciano de Andrade TostaBRresearcher
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,128 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 343 | #62,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 292 | #67,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 222 | #79,676 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 73 | #34,401 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 73 | #34,218 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 39 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 39 | #59,719 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 38 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 38 | #60,254 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tosta mean, and where does it come from?
- toasted sandwich toastie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tosta?
- A machine transcription gives /tɔʃtɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Tosta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Tosta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tosta most common?
- Tosta is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tosta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,617 people named Tosta, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tosta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tostaThe 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, “Tosta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.