Tenia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʈɛɲiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tenia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 410K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 111K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 363K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
812 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tenia 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 | 812 | 1 in 410K | 810 | Tenia | 186 |
| GH Ghana | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Tenia | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 808K | — | Tenia | 26 |
| PH Philippines | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Tenia | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 46 | 1 in 4.6M | 59 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 518K | — | Tenia | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Tenia | 2 |
812 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Tenia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tenir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, tapeworm
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tenia?
- A machine transcription gives /ʈɛɲiə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tenia a male or female name?
- Tenia is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Tenia?
- In the etymology graph, Taenia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tenia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 812 people named Tenia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tenia.
- How common is the name Tenia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 812 people named Tenia in 2020, about 1 in 410 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tenia?
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/teniaThe 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, “Tenia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.