Tellez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɛʎɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tellez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 36th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 287(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 2.3K
- ESSpain1 in 6.3K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 287 (inferred from the name graph)
22,494 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Téllez in BO Bolivia, CU Cuba and Telléz in CR Costa Rica.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tellez 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 | — | 22,494 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Tellez | 339 |
| NI Nicaragua | #36 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 287 | — | Tellez | 42 |
| CO Colombia | #269 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 22 | Tellez | 127 |
| ES Spain | #589 | 7,923 | 1 in 6.3K | 7.9K | Tellez | 132 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Téllez | 21 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Téllez | 41 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,826 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.8K | Telléz | 36 |
22,494 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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gonzalo Téllezb. 8709th - 10th-Century noble, Count of Álava, Cerezo, Lantarón and Castile
- Tirso de Molinab. 1583ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (c. 1583-c.1648)
- Tom Tellezb. 1933USAmerican athletics coach
- Dora María Téllezb. 1955NINicaraguan revolutionary, historian and politician
- Benito Archundiab. 1966MXnot in their usual nameMexican football referee
- Norberto Téllezb. 1972CUathletics competitor
- Óscar Téllezb. 1975ESSpanish football player/manager
- Yaime Pérezb. 1991CUnot in their usual nameCuban athletics competitor
- Rowdy Tellezb. 1995USMexican-American baseball player
- Laura Ucrósb. 1995COnot in their usual nameColombian tennis player
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,595 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,174 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.9K | #695 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.9K | #695 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.8K | #370 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 22 | #94 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tellez?
- A machine transcription gives /tɛʎɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tellez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Tellez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tellez.
- How common is the name Tellez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,494 people named Tellez in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Tellez compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Tellez is the 36th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tellez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tellezThe 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, “Tellez” — the 36th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.