Told

• Spanish:/t̪old̪/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Told is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English57%

  simple past and past participle of tell

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German21%

  s. Berchtwald

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• Spanish7.4%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Told in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Told is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Tõld

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Told is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Danish, duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In yol, alternative form of tolth

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, past participle of tole

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Hungarian, to add, to splice

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Shane Toldb. 1981CACanadian singer-songwriter and singer
• Reinhard ToldUSresearcher

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).

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Told mean, and where does it come from?

simple past and past participle of tell Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Told?

In the etymology graph, Tould is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Told?

In Spanish /t̪old̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Told have the most bearers?

Told is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled told.