Tagle Surname Origin & Formation

Origin and formation

Tagle comes from a place of the same name in Cantabria, northern Spain. It is a Spanish habitational surname: the settlement name became a family name associated with a place of origin or residence. The Philippine surname was borrowed through Spanish and keeps the spelling Tagle. Among its Philippine bearers is Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, a Catholic cardinal who previously served as bishop of Imus and archbishop of Manila.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Tagalog: /ˈtaɡle/ · Wiktionary ↗
• Spanish: /ˈtaɡle/ · Wiktionary ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Tagle has 3 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts