Tillett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Till (Matilda); first attested Tillot Hobwyfe 1379 PTY
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtɪɫɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tillett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 106K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 3.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)
3,147 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
diminutive of Till (Matilda); first attested Tillot Hobwyfe 1379 PTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tillett 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 | 3,147 | 1 in 106K | 3.1K | Tillett | 6 |
| ES Spain | 16 | 1 in 3.1M | 16 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 1.2K | Tillett | 4 |
3,147 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)
Tillett is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, little Till (ii).
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Ben Tillettb. 1860GBBritish politician (1860-1943)
- Charles Walter Tillettb. 1888USAmerican lawyer
- Gladys Avery Tillettb. 1891USAmerican political organizer and activist
- Stephen Szlatenyi Tillettb. 1930botanist (1930-2021)
- Barbara Tillettb. 1946USAmerican librarian (1946-)
- Ronald L. Tillettb. 1956USAmerican government official
- Tahlulah Tillettb. 1998AUAustralian rugby league football player
- Carolyn L. Tillettbotanical collector (fl. 1960 )
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,243 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,446 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.2K | #5,579 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #395,109 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #196,643 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Tillett mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Till (Matilda); first attested Tillot Hobwyfe 1379 PTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Tillett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɪɫɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tillett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Tillett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tillett.
- Where is Tillett most common?
- Tillett is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tillett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,147 people named Tillett in 2010, about 1 in 106 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/tillettThe 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, “Tillett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.