Tamo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fluff; dust
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tamo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 113K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 10K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 63K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
fluff; dust
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tamo 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 | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Tamo | 20 |
| BO Bolivia | #711 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Tamo | 19 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Tamo | 25 |
| IN India | — | 183 | 1 in 7.2M | 183 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 165 | Tamo | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 133 | 1 in 63K | 133 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Tamo 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.
Ben-Tamou
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, männl. Vom., Eindeutschung von ungar. Tamo, einer Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, var of Tam.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Filipino, act of acquiring (of a prize, honor, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, eye dialect spelling of estamos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ateruib. 750JPnot in their usual nameChief of the Isawa
- Angelo Tamob. 1550ITItalian printer (fl. 1598-1630)
- Juan Héctor Alejandro Taco Tamob. 1951PEPeruvian politician
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)
Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 198 | #720 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 183 | #18,866 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 141 | #122,314 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,399 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Tamo mean, and where does it come from?
- fluff; dust Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tamo?
- A machine transcription gives /tamo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tamo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Tamo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamo.
- How common is the name Tamo?
- In India, the national register counted 183 people named Tamo, about 1 in 7.2 million residents.
- How common is Tamo compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Tamo is the 711th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamoThe 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, “Tamo” — the 711th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.