Lalo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of lalar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lalo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 46K
- COColombia≈1 in 47K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,066 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, 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)
first-person singular present indicative of lalar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lalo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,066 | 1 in 312K | 1K | Lalo | 20 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 1 | — | — |
| PE Peru | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Lalo | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Lalo | 9 |
| AR Argentina | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 270K | 94 | — | — |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Lalo | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 25 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 32 | 1 in 96K | 32 | — | — |
1,066 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Lalo 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 English, Edouard Victor, French composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In llu, center, middle, as of a garden; inner room, yard, enclosed space; between two things, not one or the other (as between black and white)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mnb, heart; seat of emotions (many idioms relating to feelings are formed with this word); wish, desire
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hawaiian, down, downward, low, lower, under, beneath; depths, lowness; leeward, southern
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, baobab leaf powder, used to make soups in Western Africa.
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)
- Lalo Malcolmb. 1903ARArgentinian actor (1903-1970)
- Lalo Hartichb. 1904ARArgentinian actor (1904-1979)
- Lalo Guerrerob. 1916USAmerican musician, composer and labor activist (1916–2005)
- Lalo Schifrinb. 1932ARArgentine-American composer (1932–2025)
- Lalo Fransenb. 1941ARArgentinian actor
- Lalo Mirb. 1952ARArgentinian radio and TV host
- Lalo Rodríguezb. 1958USPuerto Rican singer (1958–2022)
- Lalo Barrubiab. 1967UYUruguayan writer and artist
- Lalo Fernándezb. 1992MXMexican footballer
- Lalo BouhierARArgentinian actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #11,855 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47 | #11,855 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 32 | #5,588 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 4 | #3,364 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #120 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1958 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Lalo a male or female name?
- Lalo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Lalo mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of lalar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lalo?
- In the etymology graph, Edward, Eddie and Ted are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Eduardo.
- In which country does Lalo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lalo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lalo.
- How common is the name Lalo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,066 people named Lalo in 2020, about 1 in 312 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laloThe 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, “Lalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.