Totaro

surname · Latin script

Meaning: var. regional de Todaro

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/toʊˈtɑɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Totaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 431K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 11K
  • BMBermuda≈1 in 19K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,700 people, est.

Sources
206 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

var. regional de Todaro

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Totaro 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.

Where Totaro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈5,700 est.≈1 in 11KlistedTotaro47
US United States—7721 in 431K772Totaro206
PK Pakistan—≈500 est.≈1 in 466K—Totaro1
AR Argentina—4671 in 97K467—1
FR France—≈340 est.≈1 in 199K45—1
CH Switzerland—871 in 97K87Totaro4
IE Ireland—≈41 est.≈1 in 125K—Totaro2
BM Bermuda#230≈4 est.≈1 in 19K—Totaro1

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Totaro is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tótaro, Tòtaro, Totàro, Tōtarō

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Tótaro, Totaró

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Japan

    Also written Tōtarō

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tōtarō, Tótaro, Totáro, Totàro

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Totaro 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 Italian, Variante di Teodori

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

194019601980Francesco Totaro, b. 1941Luigi Totaro, b. 1944Roberto Totaro, b. 1957Mario Totaro, b. 1962Achille Totaro, b. 1965Piero Totaro, b. 1966Burt Totaro, b. 1969Set Teitan, b. 1978

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)

FormalDear Totaro,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Totaro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010772#30,303
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000764#29,210
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020719#34,023
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—467—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202487#12,314
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196180—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19414—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19214—

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 Totaro mean, and where does it come from?
var. regional de Todaro Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Totaro?
A machine transcription gives /toʊˈtɑɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Totaro have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Totaro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled totaro.
How common is the name Totaro?
In the United States, the national register counted 772 people named Totaro in 2010, about 1 in 431 thousand residents.
How common is Totaro compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Totaro is the 230th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Totaro” — the 230th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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