Tello

surname · Latin script

Meaning: probably of Gmc origin, and may be akin to the Gmc per¬ sonal name represented by OE Tila (cf

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tɛʎo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tello is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 732(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.4K
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈44,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
313 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 732 (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TelloLatin(measured from records)
ΤελλοGreek(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)

probably of Gmc origin, and may be akin to the Gmc per¬ sonal name represented by OE Tila (cf. Tilbrook, Til¬ bury, and Tilden). Tengel see Dengler Tengue see Tanguy

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tello 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.

Where Tello is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#95≈44,000 est.≈1 in 732—Tello117
AR Argentina#25925,3121 in 1.8K25KTello91
EC Ecuador#26811,8331 in 1.4K12KTello61
US United States—11,5121 in 29K12KTello313
ES Spain#4869,4941 in 5.3K9.5KTello146
GT Guatemala#130≈6,200 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Tello49
CL Chile#392≈5,700 est.≈1 in 3.2K1Tello99

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tello is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tëllö, Têllô, Telló, Téllô, Ťéľľó

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Spain

    Also written Telló, Tèllò, Téllo, Têllo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Telló

  • Lao surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Peru, United States, Chile

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Telo, Tëllö, เตโล, Tellô, เตโย

  • Turkish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Peru, Spain, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Tellö, Tèllo, Téllô

  • Italian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Italy, United States, Spain

    Also written Têllô, Tellò, Tëllö, Tëllo, Téllo

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tello is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, lid (of a pot, pan, etc)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Julio C. Tello, b. 1880Rodrigo Tello, b. 1979Facundo Tello, b. 1982César Doy, b. 1982Christian Noboa, b. 1985Luis Santelices, b. 1985Cristian Tello, b. 1991Deysi Cori Tello, b. 1993Jorge Cori Tello, b. 1995Adrián Ugarriza, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Tello,Dear Tello, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tello,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Tello
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—25K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202412K#367
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—12K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201012K#3,136
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,305
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—9.5K#588
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9.5K#588
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.7K#4,252
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995230—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998227—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010217—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2011204—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Tello come from?
probably of Gmc origin, and may be akin to the Gmc per¬ sonal name represented by OE Tila (cf. Tilbrook, Til¬ bury, and Tilden). Tengel see Dengler Tengue see Tanguy Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
In which country does Tello have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Tello in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tello.
How do you pronounce Tello?
A machine transcription gives /tɛʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Tello mean?
Recorded meaning: probably of Gmc origin, and may be akin to the Gmc per¬ sonal name represented by OE Tila (cf.
How common is the name Tello?
In Argentina, the national register counted 25,312 people named Tello, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Tello compared with other names?
In Peru, Tello is the 95th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tello” — the 95th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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