Duelo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: sorrow (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Duelo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname. Duelo is also written ดอเลาะ in Thai.
- ARArgentina1 in 4.5M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 2.4Kas ดอเลาะ
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22Kas Dole
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Duelo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named ดอเลาะ, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Duelo in other scripts: Thai and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dole in US United States, AU Australia, NG Nigeria and 1 more and ดอเลาะ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)duel (combat between two persons)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Duelo is read
(measured from records)Duelo is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish42%
sorrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English41%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duelo in English.
- French8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duelo in French.
- Portuguese5.2%
duel (combat between two persons)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 the surname Duelo is found
(measured from records)Duelo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #13 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | register #187,624 | ดอเลาะ | 84 |
| US United States | — | 3,271as Dole | 1 in 102K | 3.4K | Dole | 307 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 184 | — | 3 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 526 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Dole | 16 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Dole | 91 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Dole | 5 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)Duelo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In osp, sorrow, mourning
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "A este luto lamaban duelua " IC II 17. v. dolu .
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Duelo come from?
- duel (combat between two persons) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Duelo?
- In the etymology graph, Dó is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Duelo mean?
- In Spanish, sorrow
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Duelo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named ดอเลาะ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, France, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Duelo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Duelo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 4.5 million people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Duelo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 10 people named Duelo, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
- How common is Duelo compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Duelo is the 13th most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dueloThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Duelo” — the 13th most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.