Taavo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, short form of Taavet (“David”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taavo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 9.7K
- FIFinland≈1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia, 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)
a male given name, short form of Taavet (“David”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taavo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #314 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Taavo | 3 |
| EE Estonia | #726 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 123 | Taavo | 22 |
| US United States | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Taavo | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Taavo | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 59 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | 270 | — | 26 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taavo Virkhausb. 1934EEAmerican-Estonian composer and conductor (1934–2021)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 123 | #616 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #8,835 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,561 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #57,031 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 Taavo mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, short form of Taavet (“David”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Taavo?
- In the etymology graph, Taavet is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Taavo a male or female name?
- Taavo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Taavo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 989 people named Taavo in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taavo.
- How common is the name Taavo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 990 people in Latvia have Taavo as their first given name, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Taavo compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Taavo is the 314th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taavo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taavoThe 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, “Taavo” — the 314th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.