Tennant is used as a family name or surname in Scotland. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Tennant
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Scotland
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Tennant

How popular is Tennant?

Tennant is common in Scotland.

Tennant is ranked 20299 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Tennant bearers increased by 4.684489 per cent in 2010 US census to 8693 since 2000, the surname slipped by 155 spots and ranked at 4085. The last name was found in around 30 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 87.96 90.51
Black 7.58 6.38
Hispanic or Latino 1.97 1.14
Others 1.53 1.16
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.6 0.45
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.37 0.36
Tennant is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Jamaica is ahead in terms of density. Around 25568 people have been found who wears Tennant as their family name. Tennant is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
83,734 Belarus9
7,113 Costa Rica5
2,720 South Korea3
14,054 China3
108,034 Italy3
18,718 Thailand2
10,395 Latvia2
1,777 Jersey2
883 Macau2
1,235 Belize2
723,167 Indonesia2
13,552 Qatar2
23,344 Austria2
1,500,361 India2
9,116 Nicaragua1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
6,820 Angola1
34,581 Chile1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
10,190 Bahrain1
120,357 Argentina1
199,150 Kazakhstan1
169,904 Brazil1
7,790 Zambia1
8,859 Iraq1
9,498 Iceland1
20,172 Hungary1
3,586 Honduras1
66,560 Philippines1
42,479 Greece1
36,678 Singapore1
49,529 Israel1
10,683 Cyprus1
2,361 United States Virgin Islands1
7,292 Vietnam1
24,771 Colombia1
123,175 Tanzania1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
28,183 Zimbabwe49
4,813 Hong Kong47
52,316 Spain36
36,547 Switzerland27
137,305 Ukraine26
3,723 Guyana22
52,530 Belgium22
69,202 Netherlands18
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
10,451 United Arab Emirates92
4,128 Ireland87
104,308 France86
134,428 Russia79
Countries with hundreds of Tennant:
440 Jamaica892
25,888 Germany403
1,252 Wales316
2,702 New Zealand282
14,944 Mexico262
1,055 Mauritius219
1,392 Northern Ireland203
10,151 Malaysia177
Countries with thousands of Tennant:
4,025 United States9,929
1,649 England4,797
2,238 South Africa2,904
2,323 Canada2,153
2,305 Australia1,346
799 Scotland1,030
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Chas. Tennant worked as workman and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 23 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Salacia and arrived on July 7, 1849. 24 years old William Tennant, Immigrant Laurence Tennant, Immigrant Jno. Tennant, Immigrant Mrs Tennant, Agnes Tennant, aged 12, 24 years old William Tennant, are others that migrated to US.

Tennant Namesakes

    Andy Tennant, American film director, television director, screenwriter and dancer
  • Ali Tennant, Singer
  • Andy Tennant, Screenwriter
  • David Tennant, Actor
  • David Tennant, Actor
  • Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, Industrialist
  • David Tennant, Actor
  • Andy Tennant, Cricket Bowler
  • Andy Tennant, Screenwriter
  • Bryn Tennant, Author
  • David Tennant, Former Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa
  • In 2011 crime and drama flick, The Samaritan, Andrew Tennant portrayed Devlin Van Ryan.

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