Entry № 10688 · Italian origin

Tosca Tosca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOSS-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"From Tuscany (Puccini's Tosca + Tosca Musk)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "from tuscany (puccini's tosca + tosca musk)".

Tosca is from the Italian Tosca — "Tuscan, from Tuscany" — a regional epithet that became a feminine given name through Sardou and Puccini's operatic heroine. Tosca is also a popular Italian café-restaurant brand and a top-500 Italian girl's name in the 2020s.

From Tuscany (Puccini's Tosca + Tosca Musk) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Tosca
Transliteration
Tosca
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɒs.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tosca stands.

Tosca does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Toscas before her.

Real people
Tosca Musk
South African-American filmmaker.
born 1974
In fiction
Floria Tosca
Puccini's Tosca.
1900

Names connected to Tosca.

The number behind Tosca.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tosca reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.