Tenca

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tenca is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. Recorded meaning: tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish).

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tenca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Tenca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
BR Brazil—473—
AR Argentina—304—
UY Uruguay—134—
ES Spain—12—
CH Switzerland—9—

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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tenca is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tenča

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tenca mean, and where does it come from?
tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tenca have the most bearers?
Tenca is most frequently recorded in Brazil.

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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, “Tenca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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