Phalao
surname · Latin script
Phalao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 22Kas Palao(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 31Kas Palao
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 50Kas Palao
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 Phalao itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 named Palao, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain, as Palao
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Palao in PH Philippines, ES Spain, PE Peru and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phalao 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Phalao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Palao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Phalao most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Phalao itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Spain's: the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people named Palao.
- How common is the name Phalao?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,269 people named Palao, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Phalao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phalaoThe 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, “Phalao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.