Given name & surname
Tosca
“from the Tuscany region”
Tosca is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “from the Tuscany region.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “from the Tuscany region.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tosca through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 372
- 0 boys · 372 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 358 as a first name in 2020; 262 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tosca’s family of names
Tosca has a related form in Toscah. Tosca has a related form in Toscka. Tosca has a related form in Tosckah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tosca
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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