Taulo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taulo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malawi than in any other country. Recorded meaning: towel (cloth used for wiping).
- MWMalawi≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 33K
- FIFinland1 in 139K
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.
- Malawi (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malawi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
towel (cloth used for wiping)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taulo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MW Malawi | #765 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Taulo | 6 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Taulo | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Taulo | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 80 | 1 in 568K | 80 | Taulo | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 771K | — | Taulo | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 40 | 1 in 139K | 40 | — | 3 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; 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)
Taulo 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 Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of taular
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)
- Risto Taulob. 1931FIFinnish television actor (1931–1999)
- Emma Taulob. 1984FIFinnish screenwriter
- Ville Taulob. 1985FIFinnish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 80 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #27,938 |
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 Taulo mean, and where does it come from?
- towel (cloth used for wiping) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Taulo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Taulo in Malawi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taulo.
- How common is the name Taulo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 80 people named Taulo, about 1 in 568 thousand residents.
- How common is Taulo compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Taulo is the 765th most common surname of 6,972 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tauloThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Taulo” — the 765th most common surname in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.