Tenby 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 5
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 3
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 1
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Tenby Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tenby family

Profession Census Frequency
School 3
General Servant (domestic) 1
Domestic Servant 1
Electrical Engineer 1
Small Private Means 1
Cow Man 1
Laundry Engineer & Manager 1
Labour 1
Metal Roller 1
Nil 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tenby

Name Census Frequency
Mary Tenby 17
William Tenby 13
John Tenby 10
Sarah Tenby 10
Elizabeth Tenby 9
James Tenby 8
Ann Tenby 6
Emily Tenby 5
Jonathan Tenby 5
Maria Tenby 5
Amelia Tenby 4
Henry Tenby 4
David Tenby 3
Edward Tenby 3
Eliza Tenby 3
Emma Tenby 3
George Tenby 3
Jane Tenby 3
Margaret Tenby 3
Thomas Tenby 3
Albert Tenby 2
Arthur Tenby 2
Charles Tenby 2
Christopher Tenby 2
Elsie Tenby 2

Tenby Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Teanby 83% 540
2 Tenby 100% 190
3 Tanby 80% 119

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The surname Tenby is the 2nd most popular variant of Teanby.

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