Tennant

8,601 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tennant in the 2020 census, making it the 4,008th most common in the country. That is about one person in 34,800.

By the numbers

People: 8,601
Rank: 4,008th
How common: 1 in 34,800
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From tenant, an occupational surname.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tennant described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Tennant

David Tennant (born 1971)Scottish actor
Smithson Tennant (1761–1815)British chemist
Neil Tennant (born 1954)English musician
Georgia Tennant (born 1984)English actress
Andy Tennant (born 1955)American filmmaker, actor, and dancer
Victoria Tennant (born 1950)British actress
Dorothy Tennant (1855–1926)British artist
Stella Tennant (1970–2020)Scottish model

People named Tennant with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tennant

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.