Tosca — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tosca

The Social Security Administration has registered 372 babies named Tosca between 1909 and 2003, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tosca currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tosca performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Tosca shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Tosca in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tosca in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 372 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.