Tardi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: late

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tɑɹdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tardi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 29K
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 71K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈340 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

late

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tardi 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 Tardi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈340 est.≈1 in 182KlistedTardi8
US United States1971 in 1.7M225Tardi119
FR France≈160 est.≈1 in 430K6—1
UY Uruguay1151 in 29K115——
BR Brazil1111 in 1.9M111—1
CA Canada≈61 est.≈1 in 615K—Tardi31
PR Puerto Rico≈45 est.≈1 in 71K—Tardi2

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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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(inferred from the name graph)

Tardi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Uruguay, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tardí

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Italy

    Also written Tärdi

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain

    Also written Tardì

31 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tardi 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 Catalan, inflection of tardar:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, inflection of tardus:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kea, afternoon

    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)

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)

FormalDear Tardi,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Tardi mean, and where does it come from?
late Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Tardi?
In the etymology graph, Tardivo and Tardo are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Tardi?
A machine transcription gives /tɑɹdi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Tardi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 342 people named Tardi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tardi.
Where is Tardi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tardi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tardi?
In the United States, the national register counted 197 people named Tardi in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million 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 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, “Tardi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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