Talaga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Talaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Talaga.
- PLPoland1 in 13K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 39K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 99K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
2,882 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Polish Talaga.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Talaga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,882 | 1 in 13K | 1.5K | Talaga | 67 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Talaga | 34 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Talaga | 21 |
| US United States | 616 | 1 in 540K | 616 | Talaga | 48 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Talaga | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Talaga | 13 |
2,882 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Talaga is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kne, surely; certainly; really; undoubtedly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nij, a pond, water puddle, water reservoir
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlw-opl, alternative form of telega
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, tank, pool, pond
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bik, really; truly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In abp, true; real
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Jan Talagab. 1876PLpainter (1876-1955)
- Halina Talagab. 1948PLPolish politician and deputy
- Bartłomiej Talagab. 1982PLice hockey player
- Patryk Talagab. 1995PLPolish cyclist
- Tanya TalagaCACanadian journalist and author
- Katarzyna Talaga-ĆwiertniaPLPolish microbiologist
- Stanislas TalagaFRFrench entomologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.5K | #2,013 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #2,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 616 | #36,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 605 | #39,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 567 | #37,043 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Talaga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Talaga. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Talaga have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Talaga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled talaga.
- Where is Talaga most common?
- Talaga is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Talaga?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,882 people named Talaga in 2026, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/talagaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Talaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.