Tondo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A round picture or other work of art
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tondo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- ITItaly
- PHPhilippines
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A round picture or other work of art.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tondo is read(measured from records)
Tondo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English38%
A round picture or other work of art.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tondo in Spanish.
- Swahili9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tondo in Swahili.
- Portuguese9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tondo in Portuguese.
- Italian7.7%
round, circular
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. rotundus; apelativo popular para pessoa obesa.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Tondo 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 pmf, to lock, shut out, as a fence in front of stairs to make sure that children don’t fall down the steps
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Filipino, Tondo (a district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, tree: Convulvulaceae: Cordila africana
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Vincenzo Tondob. 1937ITItalian sport shooter
- Luigi Tondob. 1948ITItalian archaeologist (born 1948)
- Jerry Tondob. 1950USAmerican actor
- Renzo Tondob. 1956ITItalian politician
- Giorgio Tondob. 1958ITresearcher
- Xavier Tondob. 1978ESroad bicycle racer (1978–2011)
- Judith Tondob. 1988CDDR Congolese footballer
- Alessandro Tondob. 1991ITItalian volleyball player
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 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 591 | #14,620 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 121 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 106 | #26,378 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 106 | #26,340 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 39 | #22,536 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 28 | #9,002 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 14 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 13 | #120,601 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Tondo mean, and where does it come from?
- A round picture or other work of art. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tondo have the most bearers?
- Tondo is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tondo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.