Given name

Tellus

Tellus is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.

The story

In mythological stories, Tellus is associated with the mother earth.

Tellus’s family of names

Tellus has a related form in Telus.

Walk Tellus’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Tellus

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Tellus, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Latin · Mythological

Comus

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Latin · Mythological

Romulus

Romulus is a surname from French.

24RareRising fast

>99% boys

Latin · Mythological

Nerio

Nerio is a surname, probably from Spanish, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

No U.S. birth series

92% boys · 8% girls

Latin · Mythological

Larenta

No U.S. birth series

78% boys · 22% girls

Greek · Mythological

Dion

“of the sacred spring” · “an honest man”

45UncommonRising

95% boys · 5% girls

Latin · Mythological

Demetrio

“a follower of the goddess Demeter”

21RareSteady

>99% boys

Greek · Mythological

Scipio

“a legendary general” · “a great leader”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Tellus’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Tellus

A sister for Tellus