Tilden
surname · Latin script
Meaning: identified place, apparently so called from the OE byname Tila (cf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtɪɫdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tilden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 181K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 637K
- NONorway1 in 781K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 181K (inferred from the name graph)
1,838 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
identified place, apparently so called from the OE byname Tila (cf. Tilbrook) + OE denu valley (see Dean i). Tildesley see Tyldesley
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tilden 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 | 1,838 | 1 in 181K | 1.8K | Tilden | 14 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
1,838 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tilden is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Bill, ^5 tennis player; Samuel, US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, political leader
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Tilden in Headcorn, Great Tilden and Little Tilden in Marden, or Tilden in Benenden (K); first attested Richard Tylden 1524 SRSf
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In crh, ablative singular of til
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of tildar:
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)
- Samuel Jones Tildenb. 1814USAmerican politician, Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876, and 1876 Democratic nominee for President (1814-1886)
- William Augustus Tildenb. 1842GBBritish chemist (1842–1926)
- Douglas Tildenb. 1860USAmerican sculptor (1860–1935)
- Josephine Tildenb. 1869USAmerican phycologist (1869-1957)
- Herbert Marmaduke Tildenb. 1885USAmerican tennis player (1885–1915)
- Bill Tildenb. 1893USAmerican tennis player (1893–1953)
- Jane Tildenb. 1910ATAustrian actress (1910–2002)
- Brad Tildenb. 1960USAmerican businessman
- Mark Tildenb. 1961CACanadian roboticist
- Leif Tildenb. 1964USAmerican actor
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 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,602 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8 | #6,113 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 7 | #63,294 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #49,158 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #404,746 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #179,374 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Tilden come from?
- identified place, apparently so called from the OE byname Tila (cf. Tilbrook) + OE denu valley (see Dean i). Tildesley see Tyldesley Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Tilden?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɪɫdən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tilden mean?
- Recorded meaning: identified place, apparently so called from the OE byname Tila (cf.
- In which country does Tilden have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Tilden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tilden.
- Where is Tilden most common?
- Tilden is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 181 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tilden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,838 people named Tilden in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tildenThe 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, “Tilden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.