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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan (Talló) : Catalan habitational name from Talló in La Cerdanya district, Catalonia.
  • in some cases possibly also Galician, a habitational name from Tallo, a place so named in A Coruña, Galicia.
  • Italian : from tallo ‘stem’, ‘stalk (of a plant)’ (Latin thallus), a nickname for a tall, thin person.

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