Telesphorus

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Telesphorus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Poland. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Tel-harsa [Tel-harsha].

74 ●

in 3 countries

Sources
2 ●

0 records

Derived

Spellings & scripts●

TelesforLatin · Slovak●3 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Tel-harsa [Tel-harsha]

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Where Telesphorus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
PL Poland—398—
NL Netherlands—13—
US United States—5—
AR Argentina—3—
VA Vatican City—1—
LT Lithuania—listed—
CD Congo - Kinshasa—listed—

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Languages●

  • English2730%
  • Swahili1921%
  • Dutch1315%
  • Western Frisian1315%
  • German910%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2730%
Swahili1921%
Dutch1315%
Western Frisian1315%
German910%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Telesphorus is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 records spelled Telesphorus10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Cameroon

    Languages: French, Swahili, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Telesphore, Telesfor, Télesphore, Télésphore

  • Spanish given name1 records spelled Telesphorus12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Telesforo, Telésforo, Telèsforo, Télesforo, Telé́sforo

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Telesphorus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, pope

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Telesphorus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—13#15,282
VA Vatican CityHoly See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names)—1#77
CD Congo - KinshasaWGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Telesphorus?
Our records include 74 bearers of Telesphorus across 3 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Telesphorus have the most bearers?
Telesphorus is most frequently recorded in Poland.
Is Telesphorus a male or female name?
Telesphorus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Telesphorus mean?
Recorded meaning: Tel-harsa [Tel-harsha]
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Telesphorus”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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