Tusa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: (i) person from Tusa, Sicily; (ii) person from Tusa, Hungary; (iii) from the medieval Hungarian personal name Tusa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtusə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tusa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 388K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 21K
- ITItaly≈1 in 72K
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
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈870 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) person from Tusa, Sicily; (ii) person from Tusa, Hungary; (iii) from the medieval Hungarian personal name Tusa
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Tusa is read(measured from records)
Tusa is one spelling over 2 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.
- English61%
(i) person from Tusa, Sicily; (ii) person from Tusa, Hungary; (iii) from the medieval Hungarian personal name Tusa
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Spanish14%
stripped corncob
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Tusa 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 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 72K | listed | Tusa | 19 |
| US United States | 858 | 1 in 388K | 858 | Tusa | 216 |
| RO Romania | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Tusa | 13 |
| FI Finland | 267 | 1 in 21K | 267 | Tusa | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Tusa | 63 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Tusa | 26 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Tusa | 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Tusa 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, oriundo da cidade siciliana de Tusa; raízes incertas
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Tusa (ME).
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Scottish Gaelic, Form of thusa (“thou, you”) used after verb forms ending in -n, -s or -dh.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, struggle, fight, combat
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)
- Gábor Tusab. 1890ROHungarian barrister, legal scholar and politician from Romania (1890-1942)
- Antonio Tusab. 1900CH(1900-1982)
- Vincenzo Tusab. 1920ITItalian archaeologist (1920-2009)
- Aldina Cutroni Tusab. 1923ITItalian archaeologist (1923-2016)
- Erzsébet Tusab. 1928HUHungarian pianist (1928-2017)
- Arnold Tusab. 1940CACanadian politician
- Frank Tusab. 1947USAmerican musician
- Laura Tusa Massarob. 1949ITItalian classicist (born 1949)
- Sebastiano Tusab. 1952ITItalian archaeologist (1952–2019)
- Concetta Tusab. 1988ITItalian association football player
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 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 858 | #27,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 839 | #29,905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 784 | #28,617 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 267 | #5,920 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 132 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tusa mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from Tusa, Sicily; (ii) person from Tusa, Hungary; (iii) from the medieval Hungarian personal name Tusa Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tusa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtusə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tusa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 871 people named Tusa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tusa.
- Where is Tusa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tusa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tusa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 858 people named Tusa in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tusa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tusaThe 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, “Tusa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.