Talle

surname · Latin script

Meaning: size (dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is)

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 34K

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 people, est.

Sources
123 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

size (dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Talle 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 Talle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈2,500 est.≈1 in 87K—Talle20
PH Philippines≈1,700 est.≈1 in 63K—Talle28
CM Cameroon≈810 est.≈1 in 34K—Talle3
FR France≈240 est.≈1 in 281K22——
US United States1411 in 2.4M141Talle123
NO Norway1221 in 45K122—6
NL Netherlands801 in 216K80Talle9

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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)

Talle is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tallé, Ṭalle, Tallè

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, Cameroon

    Also written Tallé, Tallê, Tallè, Tàlle

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Tallé, Tallè

  • Norwegian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Tälle, Tallé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tallé

34 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)

Talle 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 Estonian, allative singular of ta (“he/she”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hausa, A small soup pot.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, size

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Henry O. Talle, b. 1892Irvin M. Talle, b. 1898Aud Talle, b. 1944Laura Talle, b. 1993
  • Henry O. Talleb. 1892USAmerican politician (1892-1969)
  • Irvin M. Talleb. 1898USAmerican politician – Minnesota -House 1945-56 (District 6)
  • Aud Talleb. 1944NONorwegian anthropologist (1944-2011)
  • Laura Talleb. 1993DEGerman 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Talle,
InformalHi Talle,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Talle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—18#15,724
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—11#27,267
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—7#22,158

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Talle mean, and where does it come from?
size (dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Talle?
A machine transcription gives /təɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Talle have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Talle in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled talle.
How common is the name Talle?
In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Talle in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million 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, “Talle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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