Tasso as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tasso

What is the meaning of the name Tasso ?

The baby name Tasso is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Italian: /ˈtas.so/ (TAH-so); English: /ˈtæs.oʊ/ (TASS-oh).

Tasso is Italian in Origin.

Tasso is an Italian masculine name with layered roots. As a lexical surname turned given name, it draws from Italian tasso meaning both “badger” and “yew.” The “yew” sense goes back to Latin taxus, while the animal term likely reflects a Germanic loanword that also produced French tesson and Spanish tejón. As a result, the name carries nature-linked meanings: the hardy badger and the long-lived yew tree.

Its profile rose through the Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), author of Gerusalemme liberata, making Tasso familiar across European literary circles. The postal dynasty Thurn und Taxis descends from the Bergamasque De Tassis/Del Tasso line, further fixing the name in history. Related and regional forms include Greek Tasos/Tassos (short for Anastasios, sometimes rendered Tasso in Latin script), Italian surnominal variants Tassi and De Tassis, and the German given name Tassilo as a distant cognate.