Illo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An illustration
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/iʝo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Illo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Niger than in any other country.
- NENiger≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 130Kfew records
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
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.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Niger, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)used to address a child; hey kid!
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Illo is read
(measured from records)Illo 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.
- English45%
An illustration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
used to address a child; hey kid!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Illo in Swahili.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world
(measured from records)Illo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE Niger | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Illo | 22 |
| PH Philippines | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Illo | 17 |
| US United States | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Illo | 62 |
| KE Kenya | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 874K | — | Illo | 4 |
| SY Syria | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 488K | — | Illo | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | 8 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Illo 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 Galician, first-person singular present indicative of illar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, ablative masculine/neuter singular of ille
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, it, that (indirect object)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-phu, crying
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)- Adani Illob. 1956NENigerien diplomat
- Sam Illob. 2001IEIrish rugby union 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)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #338,870 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #92 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Illo come from?
- used to address a child; hey kid! Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Illo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /iʝo/; in Swahili /ilɔ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Illo mean?
- In English, An illustration.
- In which country does Illo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Illo in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Illo?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Illo in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Illo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/illoThe 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, “Illo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.