Taito
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: skill (capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰajtʰəw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taito is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 134K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 178K
- FIFinland≈1 in 555K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)
216 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
skill (capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Taito is read(measured from records)
Taito 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.
- Finnish81%
skill (capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English55%
Synonym of Taitung: the Japanese-derived name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Taito in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Taito 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 216 | 1 in 1.5M | 229 | Taito | 20 |
| CL Chile | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 178K | 1 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Taito | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 35 | 1 in 1.3M | 35 | — | — |
| FI Finland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 555K | 2.8K | Taito | 21 |
216 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Taito is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ttj, small, little
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, skill
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)
- Taito Kantonenb. 1900FIFinnish theologian (1900-1993)
- Taito Mäkeläb. 1913FIFinnish actor (1913-1974)
- Taito Uusitalob. 1922FIFinnish architect
- Taito Vainiob. 1935FIFinnish composer
- Taito Haarab. 1942FIFinnish weightlifter
- Anssi Joutsenlahtib. 1943FInot in their usual nameMember of the parliament of Finland
- Taito Phillip Fieldb. 1952NZNew Zealand politician (1952–2021)
- Taito Hoffrénb. 1974FIFinnish composer
- Taito Tsukinob. 1979JPJapanese pornographic actor
- Taito Tanakab. 1992JPJapanese handball player
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 229 | #87,312 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 216 | #86,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 149 | #109,915 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 35 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Taito mean, and where does it come from?
- skill (capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Taito?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰajtʰəw/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Taito have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 216 people named Taito, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taito.
- How common is the name Taito?
- In the United States, the national register counted 216 people named Taito in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Taito?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taitoThe 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, “Taito”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.