Dadò
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Dadò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 462K
- SYSyria≈1 in 9.3K
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)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 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:
Locally spelled Dado in PH Philippines, US United States, NG Nigeria and 2 more.
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)From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dadò 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Dado | 58 |
| SY Syria | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Dado | 6 |
| US United States | 720 | 1 in 462K | 789 | Dado | 164 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Dado | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 2 | Dado | 15 |
| SN Senegal | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 139K | 3 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 96 | 1 in 88K | 96 | Dadò | 4 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 96 | #11,432 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Dadò mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian dado, first attested in 1664. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Dadò have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Dadò in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dado.
- How common is the name Dadò?
- In the United States, the national register counted 720 people named Dadò in 2010, about 1 in 462 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dadò?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dad%C3%B2The 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, “Dadò”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.