Tenes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tenes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 114K
- ESSpain1 in 211K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tenes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Tenes | 2 |
| ES Spain | 237 | 1 in 211K | 237 | Tenes | 43 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Tenes | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 135 | 1 in 1.6M | 135 | Tenes | 24 |
| US United States | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Tenes | 32 |
| FR France | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 2 | Tenes | 49 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 3 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tenes is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, son of Procleia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of teneō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, tennessine (chemical element with atomic number 117)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, tennessine
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 237 | #14,518 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 237 | #14,492 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 135 | #50,347 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tenes mean, and where does it come from?
- The eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tenes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Tenes in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tenes.
- How common is the name Tenes?
- In Spain, the national register counted 237 people named Tenes, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tenesThe 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, “Tenes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.