Telmo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Probable aféresis de Antelmo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t̪elmo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Telmo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 3K
- PEPeru≈1 in 13K
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probable aféresis de Antelmo.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Telmo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #158 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Telmo | 122 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,933 | 1 in 36K | 7.3K | Telmo | 106 |
| EC Ecuador | #424 | 5,728 | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | Telmo | 42 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,306 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Telmo | 86 |
| AO Angola | #398 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Telmo | 21 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Telmo | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | #422 | 272 | 1 in 12K | 272 | Telmo | 15 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Telmo Vargasb. 1912ECChief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Ecuador. Acting Supreme Chief of Ecuador (1912–2013)
- Telmo Zarrab. 1921ESSpanish footballer (1921–2006)
- Telmo Martín Gonzálezb. 1958ESSpanish politician
- Telmo Cruzb. 1965PTPortuguese architect
- Telmo Esnalb. 1966ESSpanish film director and screenwriter
- Telmo Além da Silvab. 1975BRBrazilian footballer
- Telmo Churrob. 1977PTPortuguese film editor and screenwriter
- Telmo Teixeira-Rebelob. 1988DEGerman footballer
- Telmo Castanheirab. 1992PTPortuguese association football player
- Telmo Arcanjob. 2001PTCape Verdean 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).
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 41 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.3K | #2,646 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 7.2K | #951 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.9K | #2,431 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 5.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 5.8K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5.7K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.7K | #269 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 5.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 4.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.3K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Telmo mean, and where does it come from?
- Probable aféresis de Antelmo. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Telmo?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪elmo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Telmo a male or female name?
- Telmo 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 Telmo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Telmo in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled telmo.
- How common is the name Telmo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,933 people named Telmo in 2022, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Telmo compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Telmo is the 158th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Telmo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/telmoThe 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, “Telmo” — the 158th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.