Tallón

Name: Tallón: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Tallón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 1,432 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: Gmc personal name derived from the element tal destroy, either as a short form of a cpd name with this first element (cf. Talbot and Talleyrand) or as an independent by¬ name. 2.

IEIreland≈1 in 25Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
ESSpain1 in 35K
FRFrance≈1 in 48K

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.

: Spain (measured from records)
Record sources: 238 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Tallon

Locally spelled Tallon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ES Spain and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

Gmc personal name derived from the element tal destroy, either as a short form of a cpd name with this first element (cf. Talbot and Talleyrand) or as an independent by¬ name. 2. metonymic nickname for a swift runner or for someone with a deformed heel, from OF talon heel (a dim. of tal, L talus). Vars.: Ir.: Tallin (a Gaelicized form). Fr.; Talon. Tally see Tully

Cited for this meaning 4

A dictionary of surnames
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tallón is found

Tallón 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 Tallón is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
ES Spain	1,432	1 in 35K	1.4K	Tallon	37
FR France	≈1,400 est.	≈1 in 48K	146	—	2
US United States	1,344	1 in 247K	1.7K	Tallon	238
GB United Kingdom	≈680 est.	≈1 in 102K	847	Tallon	108
PH Philippines	≈590 est.	≈1 in 195K	—	Tallon	13
AU Australia	≈340 est.	≈1 in 81K	1	Tallon	68
IE Ireland	≈220 est.	≈1 in 25K	—	Tallon	63
NZ New Zealand	≈68 est.	≈1 in 78K	—	Tallon	20

1,432 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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

Tallón is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Tallon
French surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Spain, Argentina, United States
Languages: French, Spanish
Also written Tallon
Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Philippines
Also written Tallon
Italian surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Also written Tallon
Croatian surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian
Also written Tallon
Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Tallon
Russian surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia
Also written Tallon, Таллон, Thallon

10 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.

Notable people with this name

Jesús Tallón Maceirab. 1950ESSpanish politician
Manuel Cortés Tallónb. 1966ESSpanish actor
Juan Tallónb. 1975ESSpanish journalist

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tallón under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tallón mean, and where does it come from?: Gmc personal name derived from the element tal destroy, either as a short form of a cpd name with this first element (cf. Talbot and Talleyrand) or as an independent by¬ name. 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tallón?: In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Tallón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tallon. After it come France, United States, United Kingdom and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Tallón?: In Spain, the national register counted 1,432 people named Tallón, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.

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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 2026-10-13 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, “Tallón” — ranked 3231st in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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