Tudur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Welsh personal name Tudur; variants recorded in S
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʲʉdɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tudur is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- RORomania
- GBUnited Kingdom
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Welsh personal name Tudur; variants recorded in S. Gloucs and adjacent counties.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tudur is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, From Brythonic Totorix > W Tudur; earliest cited 1406: Rees ap Tudur dew.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
Welsh: traditional name derived from the Old Celtic form Teutorix , composed of elements meaning ‘people, tribe’ + ‘ruler, king’. The name has been widely believed to be a Welsh form of THEODORE , but there is in fact no connection between the two names. Variants: Tudyr (an earlier spelling); Tudor (an Anglicized spelling) .
as a word
In map-pro, to sleep
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Gwilym Tudurb. 1941GBWelsh businessman, activist and author
- Geraint TudurGBauthor
- Alun Tudurwriter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 34 | #64,689 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Tudur come from?
- from the Welsh personal name Tudur; variants recorded in S. Gloucs and adjacent counties. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Tudur?
- A machine transcription gives /tʲʉdɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tudur mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Welsh personal name Tudur; variants recorded in S.
- What are other forms of the name Tudur?
- In the etymology graph, Dietrich, Tudor and Till are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tudur have the most bearers?
- Tudur is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Tudur?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tudurThe 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, “Tudur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.