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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : from toca ‘cap’, ‘headgear’, a nickname for someone who made or sold headgear or who habitually wore distinctive headgear.
  • Galician : habitational name from places called Toca, in the Galician provinces of A Coruña and Lugo.

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