Tennet 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 19
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 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 7
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
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 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Tennet Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Tennet family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 6
Baker 1
Farmer 1
Farmers Wife 1
Labourer 1
Labourer Agricultural 1
Miller And Farmer Of 16 Acres 1
Housemaid 1
Fruiterer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Tennet

Name Census Frequency
William Tennet 47
John Tennet 44
Mary Tennet 37
George Tennet 32
Jane Tennet 24
Elizabeth Tennet 19
Robert Tennet 19
James Tennet 17
Thomas Tennet 17
Joseph Tennet 15
Margaret Tennet 15
Richard Tennet 12
Isabella Tennet 11
Sarah Tennet 9
Charles Tennet 8
Henry Tennet 6
Ann Tennet 5
Benjamin Tennet 5
Annie Tennet 4
Eliza Tennet 4
Taylor Tennet 4
Arthur Tennet 3
Catherine Tennet 3
Dorothy Tennet 3
Edith Tennet 3

Tennet Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Tenant 67% 1,043
2 Tennet 100% 524
3 Tanant 50% 262
4 Tennett 86% 216
5 Tenent 67% 205

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The surname Tennet is the 2nd most popular variant of Tenant.

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