Tillis
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtɪɫɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tillis is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Tills .
- USUnited States
- IEIreland
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Tills .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Tillis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, kāds, kas ir tievs un garš
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Grīdas dēlītis laivā
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)
- Frederick C. Tillisb. 1930USAmerican musician (1930–2020)
- Mel Tillisb. 1932USAmerican country music singer and musician (1932-2017)
- James Tillisb. 1957USAmerican boxer
- Pam Tillisb. 1957USAmerican country music singer-songwriter and actress
- Thom Tillisb. 1960USUnited States Senator from North Carolina since 2015
- Darren Tillisb. 1960USAmerican basketball player-coach
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #10,007 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,344 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10 | #143,714 |
| 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 Tillis mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Tills . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Tillis?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɪɫɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tillis have the most bearers?
- Tillis is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Tillis?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tillisThe 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
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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, “Tillis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.