Relo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A relative (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Relo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 610Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 930K
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
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 409K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first-person singular present indicative of relar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Relo is read
(measured from records)Relo is one spelling over 4 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.
- English34%
A relative.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Relo in French.
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Relo in Spanish.
- Portuguese10%
first-person singular present indicative of relar
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Relo is found
(measured from records)Relo 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 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 613K | — | Relo | 5 |
| FR France | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 926K | 11 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 55 | 1 in 3.8M | 55 | Relo | 20 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Relo | 8 |
| ES Spain | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Relo | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | — |
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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Relo 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 Cebuano, watch; wristwatch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, ripple or hackle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, watch; clock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Iloko, clock
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Relo come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of relar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Relo mean?
- In English, A relative.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Relo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 189 people named Relo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled relo. After it come France, Brazil, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Relo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 55 people named Relo, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Relo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reloThe 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, “Relo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.