Tédesco
surname · Latin script
Tédesco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Medieval Latin or Late Latin theodiscus, from a Germanic language, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular, vernacular”), from *þeudō (“people”) + *-iskaz (“-ish, -ic,.
- UYUruguay1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 17K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
7,205 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tedesco in US United States, CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Medieval Latinor(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*þiudiskaz“of the people“of the people, popular, vernacular”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic root*þeudō“people”(measured from records)
From Medieval Latin or Late Latin theodiscus, from a Germanic language, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular, vernacular”), from *þeudō (“people”) + *-iskaz (“-ish, -ic, -al”). The Old English form is þēodisċ, the Old High German one diutisc (attested ca. 1090 in the Annolied). Compare also Friulian todesc, archaic or regional French thiois.
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tédesco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 7,205 | 1 in 29K | 7.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 6,133 | 1 in 54K | 6.1K | Tedesco | 104 |
| AR Argentina | 2,626 | 1 in 17K | 2.6K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 382 | 1 in 22K | 382 | Tedesco | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 295 | 1 in 11K | 295 | — | — |
7,205 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tédesco mean, and where does it come from?
- From Medieval Latin or Late Latin theodiscus, from a Germanic language, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular, vernacular”), from *þeudō (“people”) + *-iskaz (“-ish, -ic,… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Tédesco have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Tédesco, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tédesco most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tédesco is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tédesco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,205 people named Tédesco, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A9descoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tédesco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.