Tansey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Gaelic Mac an Tdnaiste, ‘son of the tanist’, the heir presumptive to a clan chieftain
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtænzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tansey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 168K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 168K (inferred from the name graph)
1,981 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
from Gaelic Mac an Tdnaiste, ‘son of the tanist’, the heir presumptive to a clan chieftain.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tansey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,981 | 1 in 168K | 2K | Tansey | 7 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Tansey | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 1.3K | — | 3 |
1,981 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Tansey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Tanaiste ‘son of the tanist’ {tanist denoted the heir pre¬ sumptive to a throne). Tansini see Constant
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Tanaiste ‘son of the tanisf (tanist denoted the heir pre¬ sumptive to a throne).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In enm, alternative form of tanesie
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emma Tanseyb. 1870USAmerican actress (1870-1942)
- John Tanseyb. 1901USAmerican actor (1901-1971)
- Charlotte Tanseyb. 1922CACanadian educator, academic and writer
- Jimmy Tanseyb. 1929GBEnglish footballer (1929-2012)
- Gerry Tanseyb. 1933GBFootballer (born 1933)
- Seamus Tanseyb. 1943IEIrish musician
- Mark Tanseyb. 1949USAmerican painter (born 1949)
- Jim Tanseyb. 1953AUAustralian soccer player
- Sarah Tanseyb. 1972GBBritish actress
- Greg Tanseyb. 1988GBEnglish footballer (born 1988)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,084 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.3K | #5,361 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #240,925 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Tansey mean, and where does it come from?
- from Gaelic Mac an Tdnaiste, ‘son of the tanist’, the heir presumptive to a clan chieftain. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tansey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtænzi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tansey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Tansey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tansey.
- Where is Tansey most common?
- Tansey is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 168 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tansey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,981 people named Tansey in 2010, about 1 in 168 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/tanseyThe 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, “Tansey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.