About the Tindal Surname

The spelling Tindal grew out of Tindall, an English surname with a long paper trail. The name is generally explained as “One who came from Tindale (fort in fertile upland region), in Cumberland”. Tindal drops the “l” of Tindall, a simplification that clerks often made. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Other spellings include Tindle, Tindill and Tyndall.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Tindal surname had 2,187 bearers. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames.

Arms linked to Tindall and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Tindal surname pack.