Regalo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: present, gift
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/reˈɡalo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Regalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 572K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 27K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
370 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)pleasure; satisfaction; contentment
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Regalo is read
(measured from records)Regalo is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish52%
present, gift
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Regalo in English.
- Portuguese16%
pleasure; satisfaction; contentment
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Regalo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 370 | 1 in 572K | 370 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 336K | — | Regalo | 11 |
| SV El Salvador | #909 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Regalo | 10 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Regalo | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 124 | 1 in 27K | 124 | Regalo | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | Regalo | 4 |
370 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Regalo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of regalar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, delicatessen, treat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, a gift, a present
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pap, gift, present
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)- Simone Cecilio Hallak RegaloBRresearcher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 370 | #22,185 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 124 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 33 | #25,467 |
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
- Where does the name Regalo come from?
- pleasure; satisfaction; contentment Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Regalo?
- In the etymology graph, Regalia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Regalo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /reˈɡalo/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /heˈɡa.lo/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Regalo mean?
- In Spanish, present, gift
- In which country does Regalo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 370 people named Regalo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Regalo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Regalo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Regalo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 370 people named Regalo, about 1 in 572 thousand residents.
- How common is Regalo compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Regalo is the 909th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Regalo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/regaloThe 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, “Regalo” — the 909th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.