Tellier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Altération de Letellier
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Tellier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 24K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 150K
- USUnited States1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tellier itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
1,843 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Altération de Letellier.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tellier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,843 | 1 in 180K | 1.8K | Tellier | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 491 | 1 in 24K | 491 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 188 | 1 in 242K | 188 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 115 | 1 in 150K | 115 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 101 | 1 in 2.1M | 101 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | — |
1,843 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Tellier 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 frm, clothmaker
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)- Charles Tellierb. 1828FRFrench engineer (1828–1913)
- Léon Tellierb. 1850FRFrench Olympic sailor
- Théodule Tellierb. 1855FRFrench philatelist (1855–1922)
- Joseph-Mathias Tellierb. 1861CACanadian politician (1861–1952)
- Jules Tellierb. 1863FRFrench journalist (1863-1889)
- Maurice Tellierb. 1896CACanadian politician (1896–1966)
- Paul Tellierb. 1939CACanadian railway executive
- Frédéric Tellierb. 1953FRFrench film director
- Sébastien Tellierb. 1975FRclub DJ from France (1975-)
- Sylvie Tellierb. 1978FRFrench model
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tellier mean, and where does it come from?
- Altération de Letellier. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Tellier have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Tellier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tellier.
- Where is Tellier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tellier is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tellier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,843 people named Tellier in 2010, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tellier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tellierThe 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, “Tellier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.