Telford
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A different form of Telfer, as if from a place-name ending in -ford
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Telford is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- PAPanama
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)
A different form of Telfer, as if from a place-name ending in -ford.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language 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)
Telford 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 English, A characteristical surname.
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)
- Thomas Telfordb. 1757GBScottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason (1757–1834)
- Robert Telfordb. 1860CAMember of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1860–1933)
- Telford Taylorb. 1908USAmerican attorney and law professor (1908–1998)
- Ralph Telford O’Nealb. 1933GBBritish Virgin Islands politician (1933–2019)
- Ray Telfordb. 1946CACanadian soccer player
- Billy Telfordb. 1956GBFootballer (born 1956)
- Zoe Telfordb. 1973GBEnglish actress
- Katie Telfordb. 1978CACanadian political aide
- Carly Telfordb. 1987GBEnglish association football player (born 1987)
- Dom Telfordb. 1996GBEnglish association football player (born 1996)
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.2K | #1,915 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,861 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,594 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 98 | #527 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #28,511 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,589 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,678 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #53,041 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #8,346 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Telford mean, and where does it come from?
- A different form of Telfer, as if from a place-name ending in -ford. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Telford have the most bearers?
- Telford is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Telford?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/telfordThe 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
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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, “Telford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.