Tenny
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtɛni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tenny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably a variant of Tennenbaum.
- INIndia1 in 147M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 46Kas Tenney
- FIFinland1 in 96Kas Tenni
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tenny itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147M (inferred from the name graph)
7,238 named Tenney, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tenney in US United States.
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)
Probably a variant of Tennenbaum.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tenny 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.
7,238 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lawrence J. Tennyb. 1962USPh.D. Indiana University 1992
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)
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 749 | #32,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 692 | #31,592 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 651 | #34,707 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #11,035 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #125,596 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Tenny mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably a variant of Tennenbaum. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Tenny?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɛni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tenny a male or female name?
- Tenny is a male 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.
- In which country does Tenny have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Tenney, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tenny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tenny is densest in India — about 1 in 147 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tenny?
- In India, the national register counted 9 people named Tenny, about 1 in 147 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tenny?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tennyThe 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, “Tenny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.