Tosto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: at once, immediately (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/tosto/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tosto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 20Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 115K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 140Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Tosto
- Spanish:/tosto/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/tɔsto/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/tuʃtu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first-person singular present indicative of tostar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tosto is read
(measured from records)Tosto is one spelling over 4 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.
- English49%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tosto in English.
- Spanish23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tosto in Spanish.
- Italian9.5%
at once, immediately
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. tostus; apelativo para pessoa teimosa e dura
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Portuguese8.4%
first-person singular present indicative of tostar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 the surname Tosto is found
(measured from records)Tosto 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 | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Tosto | 36 |
| US United States | — | 598 | 1 in 556K | 646 | Tosto | 192 |
| BR Brazil | — | 435 | 1 in 487K | 435 | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 395 | 1 in 115K | 395 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Tosto | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 48 | 1 in 175K | 48 | Tosto | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Tosto | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #340 | — | — | — | Tosto | 1 |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Tosto 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 Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tostus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, toast, toasting
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Ātri; steidzīgi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Gaetano Tostob. 1948ITItalian weightlifter
- Gianluigi Tostob. 1964ITItalian actor
- Vittorio Tostob. 1974ITItalian footballer
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tosto come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of tostar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tosto?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /tosto/; in Italian /tɔsto/; in Portuguese /tuʃtu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Tosto mean?
- In Italian, at once, immediately
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tosto?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Tosto in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tosto. After it come United States, Brazil, Argentina and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tosto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 598 people named Tosto in 2010, about 1 in 556 thousand residents.
- How common is Tosto compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Tosto is the 340th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tosto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tostoThe 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, “Tosto” — the 340th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.