Tarallo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a snack food from southern Italy, in the form of a twist of breadstick, often covered in pepper, anise, etc
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tarallo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 16K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 120K
- ARArgentina1 in 334K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
630 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
a snack food from southern Italy, in the form of a twist of breadstick, often covered in pepper, anise, etc. or sugar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tarallo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 630 | 1 in 528K | 630 | Tarallo | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 240 | 1 in 882K | 240 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 207 | 1 in 16K | 207 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 136 | 1 in 334K | 136 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 98 | 1 in 120K | 98 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | — |
630 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Tarallo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do termo meridional med. tarallus; vendedor de doces ou apelativo afável
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- André Tarallob. 1927FRFrench businessman (1927–2018)
- Massimo Tarallob. 1961ITItalian mathematician
- Stefano Tarallob. 1976ITItalian tennis player
- Sonia Tarallob. 1979ITItalian pathologist (born 1979)
- Roberta Tarallob. 1979ITItalian pathologist
- Michele Tarallob. 1980ITItalian footballer
- Claudia Tarallob. 1984ITItalian literary historian (1984-)
- Isabel TaralloUYUruguayan engraver
- Marco G. TaralloITresearcher
- Valeria TaralloITresearcher
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(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 630 | #35,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 613 | #38,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 555 | #37,688 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 240 | #31,666 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 207 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 136 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 98 | #15,828 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Tarallo come from?
- a snack food from southern Italy, in the form of a twist of breadstick, often covered in pepper, anise, etc. or sugar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Tarallo mean?
- Recorded meaning: a snack food from southern Italy, in the form of a twist of breadstick, often covered in pepper, anise, etc.
- In which country does Tarallo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 630 people named Tarallo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tarallo.
- Where is Tarallo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tarallo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tarallo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 630 people named Tarallo in 2010, about 1 in 528 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taralloThe 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, “Tarallo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.