Tavo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tabo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tavo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 631K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tavo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tavo | 25 |
| US United States | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 631K | 5 | Tavo | 91 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Tavo | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Tavo | 15 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Tavo | 8 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 40 | Tavo | 11 |
| CR Costa Rica | #971 | — | — | — | Tavo | 13 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Tavo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In smn, accusative/genitive singular of taho
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ivv, scooping out (liquid)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tao, to get water
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Malagasy, pumpkin
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In guw, table
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, your
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)
- Tavo Romannb. 1982EEEstonian chemist (born 1982)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 40 | #1,060 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1957 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Tavo?
- A machine transcription gives /tabo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Tavo a male or female name?
- Tavo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tavo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Tavo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tavo.
- How common is the name Tavo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,700 people in Colombia have Tavo as their first given name, about 1 in 18 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Tavo compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Tavo is the 971st most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tavo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tavoThe 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, “Tavo” — the 971st most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.