Alao

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 999K(measured from records)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 32M
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

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.

United States (measured from records)

333 people, 2010

Sources
161 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alao 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.

Where Alao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3331 in 999K566Alao161
AR Argentina—351 in 1.3M35——
ES Spain—161 in 3.1M16—2
NG Nigeria#216≈7 est.≈1 in 32M—Alao87
PL Poland—51 in 7.7M3—1
GY Guyana—11 in 750K1—1

333 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alao is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Nigeria, Ecuador, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Alão, Alaó, Alăo, Alaô, Aläo

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Nigeria, Benin

    Also written Alăo, Alão

  • Bangla surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, Nigeria

    Also written আলাও

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

194019501960Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Arisekola Alao, b. 1945Isiaka Atunde Alao, b. 1951Halima Tayo Alao, b. 1956

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Alao
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020566#41,459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010333#60,505
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000152#108,153
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—35—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—16#94,489
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#248,164
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#302,838
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#624
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Alao have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 333 people named Alao, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alao.
Where is Alao most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alao is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alao?
In the United States, the national register counted 333 people named Alao in 2010, about 1 in 999 thousand residents.
How common is Alao compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Alao is the 216th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Alao” — the 216th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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