Tentes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of tentar
Tentes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 4.2M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1Mas Tentis
- GRGreece≈1 in 2.4Mas Τεντης
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tentes 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
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2M (inferred from the name graph)
157 named Tentis, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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)
second-person singular present subjunctive of tentar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tentes 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 | 157as Tentis | 1 in 2.1M | 163 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 50 | 1 in 4.2M | 50 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8as Tentis | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| GR Greece | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 2 | Tentes | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 8 | — | 3 |
157 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Tentes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of tentō
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 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 50 | #104,821 |
| 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
- What does the name Tentes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of tentar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tentes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 157 people named Tentis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tentes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tentes is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 4.2 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tentes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 50 people named Tentes, about 1 in 4.2 million 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/tentesThe 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, “Tentes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.