Tannant 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 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 2
Dorset 2
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 4
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 6
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
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 15
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Tannant Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tannant family

Profession Census Frequency
Private 53 Regiment 2
Independent 2
Female Servant 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Labourer 1
Pauper 1
Farmer 1
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tannant

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Tannant 21
Richard Tannant 19
Mary Tannant 14
Thomas Tannant 10
Ann Tannant 9
Edward Tannant 9
James Tannant 9
John Tannant 9
William Tannant 9
David Tannant 7
George Tannant 7
Jane Tannant 7
Charlotte Tannant 6
Sarah Tannant 6
Margaret Tannant 5
Robert Tannant 5
Alfred Tannant 4
Alice Tannant 4
Charles Tannant 4
Martha Tannant 4
Susan Tannant 4
Edmund Tannant 3
Emma Tannant 3
Annie Tannant 2
Ethel Tannant 2

Tannant Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tennant 86% 13,020
2 Tennent 71% 1,857
3 Tanant 86% 262
4 Tannant 100% 230

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The surname Tannant is the 4th most popular variant of Tennant.

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