Tófalo
surname · Latin script
Tófalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: redução popular de Cristofalo.
- UYUruguay1 in 141K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 355K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tofalo in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, UY Uruguay and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)redução popular de Cristofalo
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tófalo is found
(measured from records)Tófalo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 431K | listed | Tofalo | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 128 | 1 in 355K | 128 | Tofalo | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 75 | 1 in 2.8M | 75 | Tofalo | 14 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | listed | Tofalo | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | Tofalo | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Tofalo | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tófalo mean, and where does it come from?
- redução popular de Cristofalo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tófalo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 people named Tófalo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tofalo. After it come Argentina, Brazil, United States and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tófalo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tófalo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 141 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tófalo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 128 people named Tófalo, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tófalo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B3faloThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tófalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.