Given name & surname
Alo
“beginning”
Alo is a masculine given name, probably from Livonian. It is used in Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alo probably goes back to a word meaning “beginning.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Alo is a short form of Aleksander.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 95
- 90 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,759 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,759 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 188 as a first name in 2020; 1,026 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alo’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Alo is a short form of Aleksander.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Alo
- Alo BärengrubEstonian footballer (born 1984)
- Alo JakinEstonian sports cyclist (born 1986)
- Alo MattiisenEstonian composer (1961–1996)
- Alo DupikovEstonian footballer (born 1985)
- Alo PõldmäeEstonian composer (born 1945)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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