Tallo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: stalk, stem

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈtæɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tallo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 676K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 23K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

stalk, stem

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Tallo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 73K—Tallo29
US United States—4921 in 676K517Tallo147
ES Spain—1801 in 278K180Tallo8
IT Italy—≈170 est.≈1 in 377KlistedTallo6
IN India—1631 in 8.1M163Tallo8
AR Argentina—1531 in 297K153——
EE Estonia—≈54 est.≈1 in 23K43Tallo10
FI Finland—301 in 186K30—2
HM Heard & McDonald Islands#254———Tallo1

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tallo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Talló, Tällö, Tallò

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Talló

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States

    Also written Talló

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Talló, Thallus

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Talló

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1850190019502000Karl Tallo, b. 1891Hendrik Tallo, b. 1893Ivar Tallo, b. 1964Mari Tallo, b. 1978Mark Tallo, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Tallo,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Tallo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020517#44,679
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010492#43,811
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000466#43,629
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—180#17,929
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—180#17,875
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—163#20,481
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—153—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—143#999
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—43#2,329
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—40#2,529
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#38,383
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

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

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?
A machine transcription gives /ˈtæɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Tallo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Tallo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tallo.
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.

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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 2026-10-10.

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