Tabo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries
/tabo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tabo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 13K(measured from records)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 37Kfew records
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 49K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
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)Prabhutaratna, an ancient Buddha appearing in the Lotus Sutra; associated with the Many Treasures Pagoda.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
How Tabo is read
(measured from records)Tabo is one spelling over 2 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.
- English40%
A small town in Himachal Pradesh, India, the site of an ancient monastery.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish31%
tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Tabo 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 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Tabo | 24 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Tabo | 8 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Tabo | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 271 | 1 in 13K | 271 | Tabo | 13 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 3 | Tabo | 7 |
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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)Tabo 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 Korean, Prabhutaratna, an ancient Buddha appearing in the Lotus Sutra; associated with the Many Treasures Pagoda.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In dag, 1. kind a 2. sort 3. species. tabsi -ra V. 1. to touch with the hand. (Idiom: O tabisira. He steals.)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In gvs, flesh inside a coconut that has sprouted
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of tābum
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)- Tabo Sytstrab. 1856NLDutch writer (1856-1925)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 271 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tabo come from?
- Prabhutaratna, an ancient Buddha appearing in the Lotus Sutra; associated with the Many Treasures Pagoda. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Tabo?
- In Spanish /tabo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Tabo mean?
- In Spanish, tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)
- In which country does Tabo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Tabo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tabo.
- Where is Tabo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tabo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tabo?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 271 people named Tabo, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tabo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taboThe 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, “Tabo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.