Tortolo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tortolo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 320K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.5M
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 320K (inferred from the name graph)
142 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
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)
Tortolo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 142 | 1 in 320K | 142 | Tortolo | 26 |
| IT Italy | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | listed | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Tortolo | 11 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | listed | Tortolo | 12 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
142 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Tortolo 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 Basque, ( A, que cita a FSeg ), tortollo ( AN-larr ap. Asp Leiz2 ). "Bobalicón" A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Dulce Tortolob. 1997ARArgentine association football 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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 142 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Tortolo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 142 people named Tortolo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tortolo.
- Where is Tortolo most common?
- Tortolo is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 320 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tortolo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 142 people named Tortolo, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tortolo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tortoloThe same 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), 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, “Tortolo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.