Ténan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ténan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 511 people, counted by IBGE.
- BRBrazil1 in 414K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 414K (inferred from the name graph)
511 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tenan in US United States, FR France, BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ténan is found
(measured from records)Ténan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 511 | 1 in 414K | 511 | — | — |
| US United States | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 163 | Tenan | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | Tenan | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Tenan | 40 |
511 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ténan a male or female name?
- Ténan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ténan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 511 people named Ténan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Belgium and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ténan most common?
- Ténan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 414 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ténan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 511 people named Ténan, about 1 in 414 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ténan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A9nanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ténan” — ranked 16783rd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.