Tao-Tao
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tao-Tao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 143K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 277K
- USUnited States≈1 in 43M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Taotao in CN China, US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tao-Tao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Taotao | 52 |
| PH Philippines | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Tao-Tao | 5 |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 43M | — | Taotao | 63 |
| FI Finland | — | — | 25 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | — | 2 | — | — |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Tao-Tao 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 Filipino, pupil (of the eye)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tao-Tao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Tao-Tao in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taotao.
- How common is the name Tao-Tao?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5,000 people in China have Tao-Tao as their first surname, about 1 in 277 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Tao-Tao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tao-taoThe 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, “Tao-Tao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.