Tennis
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tennis is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 211K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 286K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 298K
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 Tennis 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)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
1,574 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tinnis in GY Guyana.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tennis 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 | 1,574 | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Tennis | 215 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 286K | 12 | Tennis | 37 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Tennis | 24 |
| DE Germany | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 902K | — | Tennis | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | Tennis | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 33as Tinnis | 1 in 23K | 33 | Tinnis | 2 |
1,574 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tenis Grasisb. 1925LVnot in their usual nameLatvian painter and stained-glass artist (1925-2001)
- Cabell Tennisb. 1932USAmerican prelate (born 1932)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,953 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12 | #127,230 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tennis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Tennis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tennis.
- Where is Tennis most common?
- Tennis is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 211 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tennis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,574 people named Tennis in 2010, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tennis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tennisThe 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, “Tennis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.