Tillotson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘son of Tillot’; first attested William Tillotson 1379 PTY
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tillotson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 80K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
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 80K (inferred from the name graph)
4,149 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
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)
‘son of Tillot’; first attested William Tillotson 1379 PTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tillotson 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 | 4,149 | 1 in 80K | 4.1K | Tillotson | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Tillotson | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Tillotson | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 1.2K | — | 2 |
4,149 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Tillotson 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, son of Tillett.
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)
- John Tillotsonb. 1630GBArchbishop of Canterbury
- Thomas Tillotsonb. 1750USAmerican politician (1750–1832)
- Robert L. Tillotsonb. 1786USAmerican politician
- Lee Stephen Tillotsonb. 1874USArmy National Guard Brigadier General
- Queena Mariob. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican soprano opera singer, newspaper columnist, voice teacher, and fiction writer (1896–1951)
- Pete Tillotsonb. 1936USAmerican basketball player (1936-2018)
- Johnny Tillotsonb. 1938USAmerican singer (1938–2025)
- Maurice Tillotsonb. 1944NZNew Zealand footballer
- Giles Tillotsonb. 1960GBBritish Indologist
- Constance TillotsonUSactor, writer, producer, personal manager, and director
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #7,972 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,079 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.2K | #5,646 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #251,742 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Tillotson mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘son of Tillot’; first attested William Tillotson 1379 PTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Tillotson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Tillotson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tillotson.
- Where is Tillotson most common?
- Tillotson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tillotson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,149 people named Tillotson in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tillotsonThe 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, “Tillotson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.