Tallo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stalk, stem
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈtaʃo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Tallo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- ESSpain1 in 278K
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
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)stalk, stem
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tallo is found
(measured from records)Tallo 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 | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Tallo | 29 |
| US United States | — | 492 | 1 in 676K | 517 | Tallo | 147 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 295K | listed | Tallo | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 180 | 1 in 278K | 180 | Tallo | 8 |
| IN India | — | 163 | 1 in 8.1M | 163 | Tallo | 8 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 43 | Tallo | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 2 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #254 | — | — | — | Tallo | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)Tallo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of tallar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, cut, slice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, thallus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In duo, three
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, (Nombre que se le da al dedo anular en cierto juego infantil) . " Txorro-morro-piko-tallo-kes (G)" A EY IV 376. . Lehenbizikoak erhi bat athera ta "txorro-morro-piko-tallo-ke" esaten zuan. Hurrengo izen hauek dituzte atzek joko huntan: lehenbizikoak txorro, bigarrenak morro eta abar. Begiak estalduta zeuzkanak morro, edo piko edo... erraiten zuan. Osk Kurl 78.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Karl Tallob. 1891EEEstonian military personnel (1891-1942)
- Ivar Tallob. 1964EEEstonian politician (born 1964)
- Mark Tallob. 1994PHFilipino basketball 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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tallo mean, and where does it come from?
- stalk, stem Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tallo?
- In Spanish /ˈtaʃo/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tallo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Tallo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tallo. After it come United States, Italy, Spain and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tallo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 492 people named Tallo in 2010, about 1 in 676 thousand residents.
- How common is Tallo compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Tallo is the 254th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tallo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/talloThe 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, “Tallo” — the 254th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.