Tellería
surname · Latin script
Tellería is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Tellería, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 8.6Kfew records
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,962 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Telleria in VE Venezuela, AR Argentina, NI Nicaragua and 4 more.
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)Borrowed from Spanish Tellería, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tellería 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,962 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Telleria | 93 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Telleria | 31 |
| BO Bolivia | #428 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Telleria | 35 |
| NI Nicaragua | #390 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Telleria | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 940 | 1 in 48K | 940 | Telleria | 43 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #720 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Telleria | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 246 | 1 in 14K | 246 | Telleria | 15 |
1,962 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Manuel Tellería Vicuñab. 1789PEPeruvian politician
- Máximo Jerez Telleríab. 1818NINicaraguan politician
- Juan Telleriab. 1895ESSpanish composer and pianist (1895-1949)
- Ignacio Chaves Telleríab. 1900NINicaraguan politician
- Gabriel Loza Telleríab. 1950BOBolivian banker
- Ernesto Telleríab. 1956ESSpanish film director
- Jostin Telleríab. 2003CRCosta Rican 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Tellería mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Tellería, a habitational surname of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Tellería have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Tellería, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled telleria.
- How common is the name Tellería?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,962 people named Tellería, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Tellería compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Tellería is the 390th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teller%C3%ADaThe 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, “Tellería” — the 390th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.