Tanant Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 1
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 3
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Tanant Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tanant family

Profession Census Frequency
School 3
Charwoman 1
Servant (domestic) 1
Joiner 1
Cook (domestic) 1
General Servant (domestic) 1
No Occupation 1
Parlourmaid Domestic 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tanant

Name Census Frequency
Mary Tanant 15
George Tanant 12
William Tanant 11
John Tanant 10
Thomas Tanant 10
Elizabeth Tanant 9
James Tanant 9
Ann Tanant 8
Charles Tanant 8
Emily Tanant 7
Jane Tanant 7
Sarah Tanant 7
Alfred Tanant 5
Frank Tanant 5
Frederick Tanant 5
Albert Tanant 4
Alice Tanant 4
Florence Tanant 4
Martha Tanant 4
Robert Tanant 4
Annie Tanant 3
Joseph Tanant 3
Mabel Tanant 3
Maria Tanant 3
Winifred Tanant 3

Tanant Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tenant 83% 1,043
2 Tennet 50% 524
3 Tanant 100% 262
4 Tannant 86% 230
5 Tenent 67% 205

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The surname Tanant is the 3rd most popular variant of Tenant.

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