Tidwell
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tidwell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 21,176 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Variant of Tideswell.
- GHGhana≈1 in 9.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 15Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 16K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 435 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
21,176 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Tideswell.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tidwell is found
(measured from records)Tidwell 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 | — | 21,176 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Tidwell | 435 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Tidwell | 1 |
| GH Ghana | #806 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Tidwell | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 47 | Tidwell | 63 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Tidwell | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tidwell | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tidwell | 2 |
21,176 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)- George Ernest Tidwellb. 1931USUnited States federal judge
- Monica Tidwellb. 1954USAmerican playboy playmate
- Thomas TidwellUSUSDA Forest Service official
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tidwell mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Tideswell. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tidwell?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Tidwell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tidwell. After it come Pakistan, Ghana, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tidwell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,176 people named Tidwell in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Tidwell compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Tidwell is the 806th most common surname of 36,883 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/tidwellThe 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, “Tidwell” — ranked 1595th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.