Telles History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The surname Telles comes from the personal name Tello derived from the Latin "tellus" meaning "land" or "earth."

Early Origins of the Telles family

The surname Telles was first found in Galicia, in the northwest corner of Spain.

Early History of the Telles family

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Telles Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Tellez, Talles, Tello, Tell, Tel, Telo, Teles and others.

Early Notables of the Telles family

Prominent among bearers of the Telles family name at this time was Tello of Castile (1337-1370), born in Seville, the seventh of the ten illegitimate children of Alfonso XI of Castile and Eleanor of Guzman; Rodrigo Tellez de las Penas, who was born...
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Telles Ranking

In the United States, the name Telles is the 7,568^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Telles migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Telles Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Alonso Telles, who arrived in New Spain in 1851 2
Jose Telles, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1878 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Telles (post 1700) +

Raymond L. Telles Jr. (b. 1915), American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1961-67
Lucy Parker Telles (1870-1955), Native American basket weaver
Raymond L. Telles Jr. (1915-2013), the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas (1957-1961), United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (1961-1967)
Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles (1922-2020), Portuguese politician and landscape architect
Marcel Hermann Telles (b. 1950), Brazilian businessman, board member of AB InBev; his estimated fortune is 12.1 billion
António da Cunha Telles (b. 1935), Portuguese film director and producer
Sylvia Telles (1934-1966), Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova singer of the 1950s and 1960s
Lygia Fagundes Telles (b. 1923), Brazilian novelist and short-story writer
Alex Nicolao Telles (b. 1992), Brazilian professional footballer

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)