Tells Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 1
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 3
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 8

Tells Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tells family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 4
Income Out Of Business 1
Cloth Weaver 1
General Labourer 1
Grocer Assistant 1
No Occupation 1
Sempstress 1
Farm Labourer 1
Alderman Retired Builder Munic 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tells

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Tells 8
Ann Tells 7
John Tells 7
Mary Tells 7
William Tells 7
Henry Tells 5
Sarah Tells 5
Charles Tells 3
Eliza Tells 3
Emma Tells 3
George Tells 3
Alice Tells 2
Edith Tells 2
Ellen Tells 2
Ernest Tells 2
Joseph Tells 2
Margaret Tells 2
Samuel Tells 2
Thomas Tells 2
Agnes Tells 1
Albert Tells 1
Alfred Tells 1
Amy Tells 1
Anna Tells 1
Annie Tells 1

Tells Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tallis 67% 1,688
2 Tills 80% 1,169
3 Tullis 67% 344
4 Tollis 67% 164
5 Tells 100% 117

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The surname Tells is the 5th most popular variant of Tallis.

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