Teño
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Teño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 964K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 96K
- ESSpain1 in 133K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
375 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Teno in US United States, ES Spain, CL Chile and 5 more.
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.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Teño 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 375 | 1 in 133K | 375 | Teno | 41 |
| US United States | 345 | 1 in 964K | 345 | Teno | 110 |
| BR Brazil | 104 | 1 in 2M | 104 | Teno | 33 |
| IN India | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 16M | 1 | Teno | 7 |
| CL Chile | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 223K | 1 | Teno | 18 |
| FI Finland | 58 | 1 in 96K | 58 | Teno | 2 |
| CO Colombia | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 856K | — | Teno | 4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 457K | — | Teno | 6 |
375 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Teño is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, have; first-person singular present indicative of ter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Teño have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 375 people named Teño, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teno.
- Where is Teño most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Teño is densest in Finland — about 1 in 96 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Teño?
- In Spain, the national register counted 375 people named Teño, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Teño?
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/te%C3%B1oThe 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, “Teño”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.