Tindal
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tindal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Tynedale, the valley of the Tyne, or from Tindale, Cumberland; first attested Adam de Tindal’ 1165 P.
- USUnited States1 in 152K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 158K
- CNChina≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Tynedale, the valley of the Tyne, or from Tindale, Cumberland; first attested Adam de Tindal’ 1165 P
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tindal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Tindal | 2 |
| US United States | 2,187 | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Tindal | 212 |
| GH Ghana | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Tindal | 4 |
| KE Kenya | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Tindal | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 275 | Tindal | 87 |
| AU Australia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 1 | Tindal | 67 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Tindal | 2 |
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); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Tindal 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, A petty officer among lascars; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
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)
- Matthew Tindalb. 1653GBphilosopher
- Nicolas Tindalb. 1688GBBritish historian
- Nicholas Conyngham Tindalb. 1776GBBritish politician and lawyer (1776-1846)
- Louis Symonds Tindalb. 1811British Royal Navy officer (1811-1876)
- Henrietta Tindalb. 1817British poet and novelist
- Henry Tindalb. 1852NLDutch military personnel and businessperson (1852-1902)
- Mardi Tindalb. 1952CAformer leader of the United Church of Canada
- Charles TindalBritish Royal Navy officer, commander in 1842
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,954 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 275 | #17,370 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tindal mean, and where does it come from?
- from Tynedale, the valley of the Tyne, or from Tindale, Cumberland; first attested Adam de Tindal’ 1165 P Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Tindal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Tindal in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tindal.
- How common is the name Tindal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,187 people named Tindal in 2010, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
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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, “Tindal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.