Fallo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the ruling (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/falo/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Fallo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 144K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 500Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Fallo
- Indonesian:/falo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/ˈfa.ʃo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the ruling.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fallo is read
(measured from records)Fallo is one spelling over 3 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.
- English57%
The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the ruling.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fallo in Indonesian.
- Spanish9.7%
mistake
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 Fallo is found
(measured from records)Fallo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 115K | listed | Fallo | 11 |
| US United States | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 322 | Fallo | 132 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Fallo | 12 |
| AU Australia | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Fallo | 29 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | Fallo | 11 |
| BE Belgium | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 619K | — | Fallo | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | Fallo | 1 |
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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Fallo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of fallar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, defect; fail
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, fault, error
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)- Erik Fallob. 1947NONorwegian alcohol smuggler
- Alexander Fallob. 1984NONorwegian author
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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fallo mean, and where does it come from?
- The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the ruling. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Fallo?
- In the etymology graph, Fallico and Fallar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Fallo?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /falo/; in Spanish /ˈfa.ʃo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fallo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 511 people named Fallo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fallo. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fallo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 287 people named Fallo in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Fallo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/falloThe 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, “Fallo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.