Tayo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A garment like an apron, worn by indigenous South Americans
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʈeɪoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tayo is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 177K
- USUnited States1 in 825K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
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 garment like an apron, worn by indigenous South Americans.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tayo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #443 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Tayo | 93 |
| US United States | — | 403 | 1 in 825K | 287 | Tayo | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 81 | Tayo | 134 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 543K | — | Tayo | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 489K | 1 | Tayo | 45 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Tayo | 12 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Tayo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, nominative/accusative masculine of ti (“three”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nci, first-person plural inalienable possessive singular of ātl; (it is) our liquid; our blood; sperm.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, we; us (inclusive of the person spoken to)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In abp, to hide, conceal
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tao, to hide
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Tayo Olafioye Peterb. 1948NGNigerian teacher, poet and author (born 1948)
- Tayo Oduekeb. 1976NGNigerian actress
- Tayo Oviosub. 1978NGNigerian entrepreneur
- Tayo Awosusi-Onutorb. 1978DEGerman Sinti musician, writer and civil activist
- Scorcherb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameBritish rapper, actor and producer
- Tayo Edunb. 1998GBEnglish association football player (born 1998)
- Tayo Adaramolab. 2003IEIrish association football player
- Ademola S. TayoNGNigerian professor of Development Education
- Tayo SobolaNGNigerian actress
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 273 | #76,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 180 | #100,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 81 | #37,800 |
| 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tayo?
- A machine transcription gives /ʈeɪoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tayo mean, and where does it come from?
- A garment like an apron, worn by indigenous South Americans. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tayo a male or female name?
- Tayo is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Tayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Tayo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tayo.
- How common is the name Tayo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 403 people named Tayo in 2020, about 1 in 825 thousand residents.
- How common is Tayo compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Tayo is the 443rd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tayo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayoThe 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, “Tayo” — the 443rd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.