Tilles
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tiʎes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tilles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 29K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 378K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
271 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
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)Tilles 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 | 271 | 1 in 1.2M | 327 | Tilles | 21 |
| FI Finland | 193 | 1 in 29K | 193 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 33 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
271 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tilles is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of tillar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, augu anatomijā šūnas vadu audos, kas ieaug sulas stobru dobumā no malas un tā noslēdz to, apturot sulas plūšanu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Raudas, gaudas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- George Tilles, Sr.b. 1859USAmerican businessman and early developer of Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Gustav Tillesb. 1880ATHolocaust victim (born 1880)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 305 | #61,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 271 | #71,886 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 193 | #7,700 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #139,729 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,134 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #395,108 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tilles?
- In Spanish /tiʎes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Tilles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 271 people named Tilles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tilles.
- Where is Tilles most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tilles is densest in Finland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tilles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 271 people named Tilles in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tilles?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tillesThe 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, “Tilles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.