Tuttle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form of Thirkell
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʌtl̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tuttle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Benin it is the 12th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 436 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 770 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Benin, est.
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)
a different form of Thirkell
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuttle 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 | — | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Tuttle | 5 |
| US United States | — | 27,751 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Tuttle | 436 |
| BJ Benin | #12 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 770 | — | Tuttle | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 880 | Tuttle | 121 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Tuttle | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Tuttle | 102 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Tuttle | 13 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Tuttle | 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). 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)
- Horace Parnell Tuttleb. 1837USAmerican astronomer (1837–1923)
- Bill Tuttleb. 1882USAmerican swimmer (1882–1930)
- Frank Tuttleb. 1892USAmerican film director (1892–1963)
- Frank Tuttleb. 1905USAmerican set decorator (1905–1969)
- Lurene Tuttleb. 1907USAmerican actress (1907-1986)
- William Tuttleb. 1912USAmerican make-up artist (1912-2007)
- Richard Tuttleb. 1941USAmerican sculptor and draftsperson (born 1941)
- Lisa Tuttleb. 1952USAmerican-British writer (born 1952)
- MacKenzie Scottb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican philanthropist and novelist
- Molly Tuttleb. 1993USAmerican singer, songwriter and instrumentalist
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 28K | #1,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 27K | #1,169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,303 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 880 | #7,327 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tuttle mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Thirkell Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tuttle?
- A machine transcription gives /tʌtl̩/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tuttle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Tuttle in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tuttle.
- How common is the name Tuttle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,751 people named Tuttle in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Tuttle compared with other names?
- In Benin, Tuttle is the 12th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tuttle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tuttleThe 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, “Tuttle” — the 12th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.