Jaló
surname · Latin script
Jaló is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From jalo (“noble, fine”). The first name could have been created in the 19th century, but judging from the surname Jalonen, could also have been a pre-Christian personal name or nickname.
- FIFinland1 in 3K(measured from records)
- GWGuinea-Bissau≈1 in 26K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 65K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jalo in FI Finland, PH Philippines, US United States 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)
From jalo (“noble, fine”). The first name could have been created in the 19th century, but judging from the surname Jalonen, could also have been a pre-Christian personal name or nickname.
Sources 2
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaló 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Jalo | 9 |
| FI Finland | 1,834 | 1 in 3K | 3.7K | Jalo | 5 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 29K | Jaló | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Jalo | 6 |
| US United States | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | Jalo | 18 |
| PT Portugal | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 676K | — | Jaló | 23 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | 7 | — | — |
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: A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Jaló is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, third-person singular preterite indicative of jalar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, range pole
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jaló mean, and where does it come from?
- From jalo (“noble, fine”). The first name could have been created in the 19th century, but judging from the surname Jalonen, could also have been a pre-Christian personal name or nickname. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Jaló have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Jaló in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jalo.
- Where is Jaló most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaló is densest in Finland — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jaló?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,834 people named Jaló, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jaló?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jal%C3%B3The 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, “Jaló”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.