Tëll
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tëll is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Pro.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- Middle Englishtellen“to count“to count, tell”(measured from records)
- Old Englishtellan“to count“to count, tell”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*talljan(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*taljaną“to count“to count, enumerate”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*talą“number“number, counting”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*dol-“calculation“calculation, fraud”(measured from records)
From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.
Sources 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tëll counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2K | — | 75 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1.4K | — | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | 317 | — | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 235 | — | 56 |
| BR Brazil | — | 201 | — | 34 |
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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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 Tëll mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Pro… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 4 other sources.
- Is Tëll a male or female name?
- Tëll is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tëll have the most bearers?
- Tëll is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%ABllThe 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, “Tëll”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.