Thell
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 14K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
714 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thell 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 714 | 1 in 14K | 714 | Thell | 8 |
| US United States | 236 | 1 in 1.4M | 320 | Thell | 12 |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
714 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ragnar Thellb. 1922SESwedish actor
- Arne Thellb. 1966FIFinnish lichenologist and mycologist (born 1966)
- Lotta Thellb. 1967SESwedish writer
- Victor Thellb. 1991SESwedish songwriter
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 714 | #1,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 320 | #66,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 296 | #63,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 236 | #80,419 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #73,203 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #80,149 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #404,509 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Thell?
- A machine transcription gives /θəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thell have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 714 people named Thell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thell.
- Where is Thell most common?
- Thell is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Thell?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 714 people named Thell, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thell?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thellThe 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, “Thell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.