Cilo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/ʒiɫo/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Cilo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 280K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 8.3M
- NLNetherlands1 in 346Kas Cilon
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 Cilo 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈640 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cilo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Cilo | 11 |
| SY Syria | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Cilo | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Cilo | 12 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Cilo | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 934K | — | Cilo | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 50as Cilon | 1 in 346K | 50 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 2 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)Cilo 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.
In Latin, A person having a prominent forehead pressed in upon the sides
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gux, moon, month
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tao, earwax
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yao, night
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kxs, stone
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Cilo?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /ʒiɫo/; in Spanish /θjlo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cilo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 641 people named Cilo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cilo.
- How common is the name Cilo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6 people named Cilo, about 1 in 8.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cilo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ciloThe 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, “Cilo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.