Tenent 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 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 1
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 6
Norfolk 4
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 2
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 6

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

Tenent Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tenent family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 2
Silk Trowster 2
Traveller 1
Blacksmith 1
Coal Miner 1
Labourer 1
Army P 1
Wool Comber 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tenent

Name Census Frequency
William Tenent 18
Mary Tenent 16
Elizabeth Tenent 13
Ann Tenent 12
John Tenent 11
George Tenent 8
Jane Tenent 5
Sarah Tenent 5
Charles Tenent 4
Henry Tenent 4
James Tenent 4
Maria Tenent 4
Thomas Tenent 4
Alice Tenent 3
Emily Tenent 3
Fanny Tenent 3
Frederick Tenent 3
Isabella Tenent 3
Joseph Tenent 3
Margaret Tenent 3
Rose Tenent 3
Adam Tenent 2
Agnes Tenent 2
Ellen Tenent 2
Emma Tenent 2

Tenent Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tennant 71% 13,020
2 Tennent 86% 1,857
3 Tenant 83% 1,043
4 Tennet 67% 524
5 Tanant 67% 262
6 Tenent 100% 205

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The surname Tenent is the 6th most popular variant of Tennant.

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