Tanno
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Probably from Tangwystl; earliest cited forms in North Wales records
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tænoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tanno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 57K
- BRBrazil1 in 436K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
486 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably from Tangwystl; earliest cited forms in North Wales records.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tanno 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 | 486 | 1 in 436K | 486 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 201 | Tanno | 109 |
| CH Switzerland | 147 | 1 in 57K | 147 | Tanno | 20 |
| AR Argentina | 57 | 1 in 798K | 57 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | — |
486 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Tanno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., verselbstständigte frie sische Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Thank-« gebildet sind (z. B. Thankmar,
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of tannare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, then (referring to a specified time)
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)
- Setsu Tannob. 1902JPJapanese feminist and labor activist (1902–1987)
- Akira Tannob. 1925JPJapanese photographer (1925–2015)
- Akira Tannob. 1940JPJapanese lexicographer
- Yoshihiko Tannob. 1954JPJapanese psychologist
- Yoshiaki Tannob. 1960JPJapanese pianist, keyboardist, vocalist, composer, arranger, producer (1960-)
- Midori Tannob. 1973JPJapanese announcer
- Maiko Tannob. 1982JPJapanese announcer
- Tomomi Tannob. 1984JPJapanese actress
- Kenta Tannob. 1986JPJapanese association football player
- Rion Tannob. 2004JPJapanese tarento
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 486 | #17,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 201 | #86,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 175 | #108,023 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 147 | #8,088 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 57 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,570 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #67,398 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Tanno mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from Tangwystl; earliest cited forms in North Wales records. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Tanno?
- A machine transcription gives /tænoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Tanno have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 486 people named Tanno, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tanno most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tanno is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tanno?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 486 people named Tanno, about 1 in 436 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tanno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tannoThe 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, “Tanno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.