Tl
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tl is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘Body, form, shape, content’.
- ATAustria≈1 in 692K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.1M
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 692K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled T-L in US United States, DE Germany.
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)‘Body, form, shape, content’
Cited for this meaning 2
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tl 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 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | T-L | 150 |
| DE Germany | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | T-L | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Tl | 33 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Tl | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 5 | Tl | 6 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Tl is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, abbreviation of Türk Lirası (“Turkish Lira”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, tsp; abbreviation of teelusikka (“teaspoon as a unit of measure, equivalent to 5 ml = 5 millilitres”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Symbol for teraliter (teralitre), an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10¹² liters (litres).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, abbreviation of Tlaxcala: a state of Mexico
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, abbreviation of Tulcea: a county of Romania
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of target language.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tl mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Body, form, shape, content’ Recorded by Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1) and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- In which country does Tl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 158 people named Tl in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled t-l.
- How common is the name Tl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 people in the United States have Tl as their first surname, about 1 in 2.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Tl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tlThe 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, “Tl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.