Tennyson

3,921 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tennyson in the 2020 census, making it the 8,093rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 76,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,921
Rank: 8,093rd
How common: 1 in 76,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.9%
Black, not Hispanic 18.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)British Poet Laureate

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

Surnames like Tennyson

Also a first name

Tennyson has been given to 1,586 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.