Tabanao

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/təbənaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tabanao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 100K
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 329K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,300 people, est.

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tabanao 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.

Where Tabanao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#747≈9,300 est.≈1 in 12KTabanao58
ID Indonesia—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 100KTabanao3
SA Saudi Arabia—≈49 est.≈1 in 697KTabanao7
US United States—≈33 est.≈1 in 10MTabanao44
GT Guatemala—≈29 est.≈1 in 592KTabanao1
AE United Arab Emirates—≈15 est.≈1 in 662KTabanao9
KW Kuwait—≈9 est.≈1 in 329KTabanao4

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.

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)

Tabanao is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Cebuano, a surname from Cebuano

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Tabanao,
InformalHi Tabanao,

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tabanao under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Tabanao?
A machine transcription gives /təbənaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Tabanao have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.3 thousand people named Tabanao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tabanao.
How common is the name Tabanao?
Mondonomo estimates about 9,300 people in the Philippines have Tabanao as their first surname, about 1 in 12 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
How common is Tabanao compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Tabanao is the 747th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tabanao” — the 747th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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