Talo
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/təɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Talo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a kind of flat round maize-cake; flat, flattened, squat.
- CLChile≈1 in 121K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 465K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 597K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a kind of flat round maize-cake; flat, flattened, squat
Sources 1
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Talo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 597K | 55 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | 292 | Talo | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 23 | 1 in 751K | 23 | — | — |
| ES Spain | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 67 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 465K | 1 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Talo 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 Basque, a kind of flat round maize-cake; flat, flattened, squat
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In tut-pro, wing, shoulderblade
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In niu, the taro plant (Colocasia esculenta). Five groups are recognized, each with many varieties, the groups being distinguished according to differences in color and the marking of the petioles, or leaf stalks
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Samoan, taro, a cultivated plant (Colocasia sp.), the corm of which is one of the most important sources of food
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fud, taro (generic): Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. antiquorum Schott
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Tongan, taro, kind of arum with edible tuberous root, Caladium esculentum
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)
- Nikolas Talob. 2003FIFinnish footballer
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 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 292 | #71,896 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 275 | #71,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 169 | #99,214 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 67 | #36,369 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 67 | #36,240 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55 | #98,063 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #75,931 |
| 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Talo mean, and where does it come from?
- a kind of flat round maize-cake; flat, flattened, squat Recorded by Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- How do you pronounce Talo?
- A machine transcription gives /təɫoʊ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Talo a male or female name?
- Talo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Talo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 355 people named Talo in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Talo?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23 people named Talo, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taloThe 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, “Talo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.