Alto
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈæl.toʊ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Alto is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- PRPuerto Rico
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Alto
- English:/ˈæl.toʊ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/alto/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alto is read
(measured from records)Alto is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English32%
A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
highest peak, Azores
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish16%
tall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 832 | Alto | 205 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Alto | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Alto | 29 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Alto | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 10 | Alto | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 329 | Alto | 2 |
| MX Mexico | — | 86 | — | 1 |
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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Alto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, someone who participates in an alternative subculture (e.g. a hipster, emo or punk)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to make high, raise, elevate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, height; elevation; altitude
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)- Bobby Altob. 1938USAmerican actor (1938-2012)
- Massimiliano Altob. 1973ITItalian actor, dub actor and dubbing director
- Arpi Altob. 1990AMArmenian singer
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alto mean, and where does it come from?
- A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Alto?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈæl.toʊ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /alto/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Alto have the most bearers?
- Alto is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled alto.
What do you want to know about Alto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/altoThe 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, “Alto” — ranked 28617th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.