Tallboys Surname

3,730,171st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 28 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Tallboys Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of the underwood.' Two great Anglican Church musicians, Tallis and Boyce (which see), represent the separate constituents of Talboys. Tallboy (which see) is an imitative corruption.

Isabella Taylbous, Yorkshire, 1477:: Corpus Christi Guild (Surtees Society).

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Tallboys Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia221:1,227,07766,405
England31:18,572,686338,250
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England111:2,215,94364,354
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Tallboys Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of the underwood.' Two great Anglican Church musicians, Tallis and Boyce (which see), represent the separate constituents of Talboys. Tallboy (which see) is an imitative corruption.

Isabella Taylbous, Yorkshire, 1477:: Corpus Christi Guild (Surtees Society).

William Taylbus, Yorkshire, 1513: ibid.

Walter Talebois. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.

William Tailboys. Rolls of Parliament.

Thomas Taylebushe, merchant-taylor, 1570: Reg. St. Mary Aldermary.

1768. Married-James Nelson and Hannah Talboys: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

French taille-bois, literally "cut-wood," analogous to Taillefer (cutiron), allusive probably to some manual feat. See Bush. The surname occurs frequently in Domesday. Ivo Tailgebosch, lord of Holland, co. Lincoln, married Lucia, sister of the Saxon Earls Edwin and Morcar; and Ralph and Ivo Tailgebosc, Tallebosc, &c., were tenants in Bedfordshire. Other corruptions of this name are Tailboys, Tabois, and Tailbush.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

From French taille bois, cut-wood; or rather qui taille le bois, one who cuts wood, a wood-cutter. This name has been rendered in English Cutbush, which, by the bye, was formerly the name of a gardener at Highgate, Middlesex.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

(Anglo-Norman), Taillebois, Copse, Hurst, Underwood.

Surnames (1857) by Bernard Homer Dixon

Tallboys Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tallboys Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Tallboys has its highest incidence in Australia. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Tallboys? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 3,730,171st most frequently held last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 260,269,497 people. The last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 82 percent of Tallboys are found; 82 percent are found in Australasia and 82 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.

This surname is most frequent in Australia, where it is held by 22 people, or 1 in 1,227,077. In Australia Tallboys is mostly concentrated in: Tasmania, where 73 percent are found, Australian Capital Territory, where 23 percent are found and New South Wales, where 5 percent are found. Not including Australia Tallboys occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in England, where 11 percent are found and Germany, where 7 percent are found.

Tallboys Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Tallboys has changed through the years. In England the share of the population with the last name declined 73 percent between 1881 and 2014.

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