Jallow
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒloʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jallow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Madagascar than in any other country. In the Gambia it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glamorgan.
- SESweden1 in 14K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 376K
- GMGambia≈1 in 22
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.
- Madagascar (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Glamorgan. probably a back-formation from a surname originating in Middle English jelous ‘jealous, amorous’ (from Anglo-Norman French gelous ‘greedy, jealous’); compare John Gelous, 1372 in Patent Rolls (Herts); Willelmus Jelus, 1381 in Poll Tax (Kirkburn, ER Yorks); Robart Jellowes, 1575 in IGI (Langtoft, Lincs); Alexand Jellous, 1595 in IGI (Market Deeping, Lincs); Audrye Jellous, 1609 in IGI (Spalding, Lincs); James Jellus, 1753 in IGI (Moulton, Lincs).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jallow 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MG Madagascar | #106 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | — | Jallow | 1 |
| GM Gambia | #1 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 22 | 19 | Jallow | 95 |
| SN Senegal | #843 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Jallow | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,345 | 1 in 37K | 1.3K | Jallow | 45 |
| US United States | — | 884 | 1 in 376K | 1.7K | Jallow | 228 |
| SE Sweden | #553 | 734 | 1 in 14K | 734 | Jallow | 53 |
| NO Norway | — | 212 | 1 in 26K | 212 | — | 14 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Omar A. Jallowb. 1946GMpolitician
- Muhammed B. S. Jallowb. 1950GMGambian politician
- Momodou Jallowb. 1975SESwedish politician
- Antouman Jallowb. 1981SESwedish footballer
- Haddy Jallowb. 1985SESwedish actress
- Mimosa Jallowb. 1994FIFinnish swimmer
- Fatou Jallowb. 1996GMGambian beauty pageant contestant
- Alagi Yorro Jallowb. 2000GMjournalist
- Maimouna Jallowb. 2005GMGambian athletics competitor
- Zainab JallowGMGambian molecular biologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,112 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,416 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 884 | #27,331 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 734 | #1,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 410 | #48,380 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 212 | #7,433 |
| GM Gambia | IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022 | 2022 | 19 | #1 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Jallow mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Glamorgan. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Jallow?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒloʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jallow have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 156 thousand people named Jallow in Madagascar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jallow.
- How common is the name Jallow?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,345 people named Jallow, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Jallow compared with other names?
- In Madagascar, Jallow is the 106th most common surname of 2,939 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jallowThe 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, “Jallow” — the 106th most common surname in Madagascar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.