Albo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: white
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/albo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Albo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 52K
- ESSpain1 in 55K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iraq, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
white
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Albo 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.
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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Albo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
pele clara; light skin
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
From Latin = white, name of Sephardim.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In Italian, notice board, bulletin board
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to make white, whiten
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, or, that is, i.e.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Albob. 1380ESrabbi (1380–1444)
- Francisco Albob. 1500GRGreek sailor who logged and survived the Magellan Expedition
- Mariano Albob. 1786ESSpanish architect
- Juan Alvarado y Albób. 1865ESSpanish author
- Giacomo Albob. 1872ITItalian botanist and teacher (1872-1969)
- August Albob. 1893EEEstonian artist (1893-1963)
- Robert Albob. 1932USAmerican physician
- Oriol Serra Albób. 1957ESPh.D. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 1988
- Dave Albob. 1962USAmerican politician
- Sigal AlboILIsraeli jurist
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 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 902 | #4,844 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 902 | #4,841 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 881 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 169 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Albo mean, and where does it come from?
- white Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Albo?
- A machine transcription gives /albo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Albo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Albo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled albo.
- How common is the name Albo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 902 people named Albo, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Albo compared with other names?
- In Iraq, Albo is the 660th most common surname of 30,136 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alboThe 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, “Albo” — the 660th most common surname in Iraq. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.