Tallak
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑːllɑːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tallak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Þórlákr, Þórleikr. Made from þórr (“Thor, thunder”) + leikr (“battle, play”).
- NONorway1 in 22K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
251 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old NorseÞórlákr(measured from records)
- Old Norse rootþórr“Thor“Thor, thunder”(measured from records)
From Old Norse Þórlákr, Þórleikr. Made from þórr (“Thor, thunder”) + leikr (“battle, play”).
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tallak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 251 | 1 in 22K | 950 | Tallak | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Tallak | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
251 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the babynamen-king-2020 register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tallak Lindstølb. 1857NONorwegian politician and writer (1857-1925)
- Tallak Nomeb. 1873NONorwegian missionary
- Tallak Molandb. 1952NONorwegian historian, author and diplomi-insinööri
- Tallak LoftheimNONorwegian missionary
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 950 | #1,700 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 251 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 234 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 213 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2022 | 205 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2024 | 20 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 18 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2023 | 8 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #51,151 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2022 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Tallak mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Þórlákr, Þórleikr. Made from þórr (“Thor, thunder”) + leikr (“battle, play”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Tallak?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑːllɑːk/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Tallak a male or female name?
- Tallak 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.
- What are other forms of the name Tallak?
- In the etymology graph, Tollak is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tallak have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 251 people named Tallak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tallak.
- Where is Tallak most common?
- Tallak is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tallak?
- In Norway, the national register counted 251 people named Tallak in 2025, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tallak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tallakThe 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, “Tallak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.