Tilahun
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tilahun is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 416(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 105K
- SESweden1 in 152K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 416 (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, 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 ጥላሁን in ET Ethiopia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tilahun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | listed | ጥላሁን | 49 |
| US United States | 480 | 1 in 693K | 920 | — | 154 |
| SE Sweden | 67 | 1 in 152K | 67 | — | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 40 | — | 28 |
| NO Norway | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 25 | 1 in 223K | 35 | — | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Haileyesus Tilahunb. 1968ETEthiopian painter (born 1968)
- Abel Tilahunb. 1983USEthiopian Artist
- Yohannes Tilahunb. 1993EREritrean 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)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 920 | #27,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 480 | #44,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 227 | #78,326 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 67 | #9,939 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #25,284 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 40 | #58,344 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #40,367 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Tilahun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 thousand people named Tilahun in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ጥላሁን.
- How common is the name Tilahun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 480 people named Tilahun in 2010, about 1 in 693 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tilahun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tilahunThe 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, “Tilahun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.