Tellis

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tellis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 186K(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 23K
  • UYUruguay1 in 60K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈10,000 people, est.

Sources
219 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tellis 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 Tellis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈10,000 est.≈1 in 23K—Tellis6
US United States1,7891 in 186K1.8KTellis219
BR Brazil3941 in 537K394——
GB United Kingdom≈190 est.≈1 in 342K77Tellis48
AU Australia≈170 est.≈1 in 152K—Tellis51
UY Uruguay561 in 60K56——
EE Estonia≈9 est.≈1 in 140K9—3

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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)

Tellis is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tellís, Téllis

47 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)

Tellis 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 Latvian, Televizors

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Tellis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,161
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,440
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#17,671
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—394#21,006
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200277#39,021
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—56—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—9#11,900
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—8#12,496
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Tellis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Tellis in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tellis.
How common is the name Tellis?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,789 people named Tellis in 2010, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.

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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, “Tellis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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