Téllis
surname · Latin script
Téllis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 60K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 186K
- BRBrazil1 in 537K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
1,789 people, 2010
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 Tellis in US United States, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Téllis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,789 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | Tellis | 62 |
| BR Brazil | 394 | 1 in 537K | 394 | Tellis | 29 |
| IN India | 69 | 1 in 19M | 69 | Tellis | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 56 | 1 in 60K | 56 | Tellis | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | Tellis | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 1 |
1,789 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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
- In which country does Téllis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Téllis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tellis.
- Where is Téllis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Téllis is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 60 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Téllis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,789 people named Téllis in 2010, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A9llisThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Téllis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.