Jallow

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jallow is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In the Gambia it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glamorgan.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 14K◐
  • ESSpain1 in 37K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 113K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.6K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
204 ●

15K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 14K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Main GB Location (1881): Glamorgan. probably a back-formation from a surname originating in Middle English jelous ‘jealous, amorous’ (from Anglo-Norman French gelous ‘greedy, jealous’); compare John Gelous, 1372 in Patent Rolls (Herts); Willelmus Jelus, 1381 in Poll Tax (Kirkburn, ER Yorks); Robart Jellowes, 1575 in IGI (Langtoft, Lincs); Alexand Jellous, 1595 in IGI (Market Deeping, Lincs); Audrye Jellous, 1609 in IGI (Spalding, Lincs); James Jellus, 1753 in IGI (Moulton, Lincs).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jallow is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—2,0651K rec.——Jallow102
ES Spain—1,345△500 rec.1 in 37K1.3KJallow45
US United States—8846.6K rec.1 in 376K1.7KJallow204
GM Gambia#18841.3K rec.—19Jallow89
FR France—746709 rec.——Jallow89
SE Sweden#4787341.4K rec.1 in 14K734Jallow49
DE Germany—686668 rec.——Jallow62
IT Italy—452476 rec.——Jallow24
FI Finland—213△48 rec.1 in 26K213Jallow13
NO Norway—212△42 rec.1 in 26K212Jallow14
MG Madagascar#104129693 rec.——Jallow1
TR Türkiye—107113 rec.——Jallow7

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English12K52%
  • Spanish3.9K17%
  • Catalan1.3K6%
  • German1K4%
  • French8644%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English11,94152%
Spanish3,86117%
Catalan1,3456%
German1,0004%
French8644%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • Norwegian Bokmål surname492 records spelled Jallow6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Jällöw

  • Russian surname31 records spelled Jallow5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Яллоу, Jàllow

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.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Omar A. Jallow, b. 1946Muhammed B. S. Jallow, b. 1950Momodou Jallow, b. 1975Antouman Jallow, b. 1981Haddy Jallow, b. 1985Mimosa Jallow, b. 1994Fatou Jallow, b. 1996Alagi Yorro Jallow, b. 2000Maimouna Jallow, b. 2005

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Jallow
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,112
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#3,416
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#3,412
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010884#27,331
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—734#1,340
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000410#48,380
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—213#12,110
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—212#7,433
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—127—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202485#12,519
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—57#9,461
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200720#49,486

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jallow?
We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Jallow (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Jallow have the most bearers?
Jallow is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled jallow.
How common is Jallow compared with other names?
In the Gambia, Jallow is the most common surname of 152 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Jallow mean?
Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glamorgan.
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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jallow” — the most common surname in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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