Falò

surname · Latin script

Meaning: bonfire (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Falò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 205 people, counted by INE.

  • ESSpain1 in 244K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.6M
  • USUnited States1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

205 people

Record sources
7 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 244K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

bonfire

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Falò is found

(measured from records)

Falò 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 Falò is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2051 in 244K205—2
US United States1661 in 2M176—7
IT Italy≈93 est.≈1 in 631K—Falò4
AR Argentina281 in 1.6M28——
IN India151 in 88M15—1

205 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Falò is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Faló, Falo, ́falo, Fãlõ

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Falo

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Falò under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Falò mean, and where does it come from?
bonfire Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Falò?
In Spain, the national register counted about 205 people named Falò, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Italy, Argentina and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Falò most common?
Falò is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 244 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Falò?
In Spain, the national register counted 205 people named Falò, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.

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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, “Falò” — ranked 16209th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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