Tellechea
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/tɛʎetʃea/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tellechea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 2,477 people, counted by RENAPER.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 18K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 34K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,477 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Tellechea
- Spanish:/tɛʎetʃea/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tellechea is found
(measured from records)Tellechea 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 2,477 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | Tellechea | 60 |
| UY Uruguay | #232 | 2,474 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.5K | Tellechea | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,364 | 1 in 37K | 1.4K | Tellechea | 79 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Tellechea | 17 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 9 | Tellechea | 59 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Tellechea | 8 |
2,477 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gilberto Tellecheab. 1885UYUruguayan fencer
- Gonzalo Tellecheab. 1985ARArgentine triathlete
- Emiliano Tellecheab. 1987UYUruguayan footballer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tellechea?
- In Spanish /tɛʎetʃea/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tellechea?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Tellechea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tellechea. After it come Uruguay, Spain, Venezuela and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tellechea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tellechea is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tellechea?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,477 people named Tellechea, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Tellechea compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Tellechea is the 232nd most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tellecheaThe 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, “Tellechea” — the 232nd most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.