Tamaño
surname · Latin script
Meaning: as big or small; equivalent in size; so big/so small; such a big/small
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tamaño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 57K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 98K
- ARArgentina1 in 268K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
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 Tamano in PH Philippines, US United States, IL Israel and 1 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)
as big or small; equivalent in size; so big/so small; such a big/small
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamaño 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Tamano | 20 |
| AR Argentina | 170 | 1 in 268K | 170 | Tamaño | 23 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Tamano | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | 59 | 1 in 57K | 59 | Tamaño | 5 |
| ES Spain | 35 | 1 in 1.4M | 35 | Tamaño | 14 |
| IL Israel | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 352K | — | Tamano | 4 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Tamano | 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tamaño is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, so big
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 170 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 35 | #57,009 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 35 | #56,582 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tamaño mean, and where does it come from?
- as big or small; equivalent in size; so big/so small; such a big/small Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tamaño?
- In the etymology graph, Tamagno is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tamaño have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Tamaño in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamano.
- Where is Tamaño most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tamaño is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tamaño?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 170 people named Tamaño, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tamaño?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tama%C3%B1oThe 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, “Tamaño”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.