Tello

At the 2020 census, 10,678 Americans bore the surname Tello — 3,305th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,678
Rank: 3,305th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

From Spanish personal name Tello, derived from the Latin Tellūs (“Earth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tello described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 91.2%
White, not Hispanic 7.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Tello

Cristian Tello (born 1991)Spanish footballer
Rodrigo Tello (born 1979)Chilean footballer
Facundo Tello (born 1982)Argentine association football referee
Julio C. Tello (1880–1947)Peruvian archaeologist, discovered the Paracas culture

People named Tello with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tello

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.