Related words みんな is a casual, everyday word for 'everyone,' while 誰も is more pronoun-like and is essential in the negative pattern 誰も〜ない meaning 'no one.'
誰も means 'anyone/everyone' in general without marking grammatical role, while 誰にも adds the particle に to specifically mark an indirect object, passive agent, or location of existence.
誰も with a negative verb is the common way to say 'no one', whereas 何人も ~ない is the more formal, literary equivalent found in legal or rhetorical writing.
Don't confuse with 誰でも means 'anyone/whoever' in a free-choice sense, whereas 誰も only means 'anyone' loosely in affirmative use and becomes 'no one' when paired with a negative predicate.
誰か means 'someone/somebody,' the opposite idea from 誰も used with a negative verb to mean 'no one.'
Etymology Formed from 誰 , 'who,' plus the particle も . With an affirmative predicate it can express universal inclusion, and with a negative predicate it yields the common pattern 'not anyone; nobody.'
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