Taco as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Taco

What is the meaning of the name Taco ?

The baby name Taco is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced TAH-koh.

Taco is Dutch, Frisian, Germanic in Origin.

As a given name, Taco is best documented in the Netherlands and Friesland, where it is a masculine Frisian/Dutch form of Taeke or Take. The older base is usually traced to Old Frisian Taka/Take, a hypocoristic name built on the West Germanic element *þank-, thought, counsel, related to Old High German dank. Its literal sense is therefore not the Mexican dish but thought or counsel, often expanded in name dictionaries as thoughtful adviser.

Dutch records show Taco chiefly among men, especially in Frisian and northern Dutch settings, with bearers including Taco Dibbits and Taco van der Hoorn. Variants include Take, Taeke, and Take; related Frisian forms may overlap with Tjaco. Outside the Low Countries the spelling is strongly associated with Spanish taco, a food term whose proposed Nahuatl ancestor tlahco signified half or middle. That culinary association has made English-language use rare and nickname-like rather than traditional.