Allô

surname · Latin script

Meaning: hello (when answering at the beginning of a call)

Allô is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

  • UYUruguay1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 60K
  • ARArgentina1 in 105K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Allô itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

829 people

Record sources
129 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Allo in US United States, ES Spain, SE Sweden.

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)

hello (when answering at the beginning of a call)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Allô 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 Allô is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain8291 in 60K829Allo18
AR Argentina4341 in 105K434——
US United States2611 in 1.3M322Allo129
UY Uruguay1901 in 18K190——
BR Brazil1141 in 1.9M114—1
SE Sweden861 in 119K86Allo8
DK Denmark501 in 117K50——

829 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Allô is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Uruguay, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Slovak

    Also written Allo, Álló, Alló, Állo, Àllô

2 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Allô under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Allô mean, and where does it come from?
hello (when answering at the beginning of a call) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Allô have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 829 people named Allô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled allo.
Where is Allô most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Allô is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Allô?
In Spain, the national register counted 829 people named Allô, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.

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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, “Allô”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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