Tente
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: inflection of tentar:
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 201K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 715K
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 201K (inferred from the name graph)
296 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of tentar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tente is read(measured from records)
Tente is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tente in English.
- Portuguese28%
inflection of tentar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish9.9%
awning, marquee
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tente in German.
- French6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tente in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tente 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.
296 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Tente 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 Hungarian, rock-a-bye, hush, hushaby (used in quieting a baby to sleep)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, second-person singular imperative of tener combined with te
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, tent, temporary hut or other similar building
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of tentus
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 296 | #26,717 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 24 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 21 | #22,349 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #89,993 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tente mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of tentar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tente have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 296 people named Tente, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tente most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tente is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 201 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tente?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 296 people named Tente, about 1 in 715 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tente?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tenteThe 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, “Tente”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.