Tenei Surname
Approximately 237 people bear this surname
Tenei Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesotho | 190 | 1:10,698 | 2,423 |
| Papua New Guinea | 25 | 1:326,149 | 43,617 |
| South Africa | 15 | 1:3,611,847 | 123,156 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Tenei (2,808) may also be a first name.
Tenei Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tenei Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tenei is carried by more people in Lesotho than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Tenei? popularity and diffusion
The last name Tenei is the 1,055,483rd most frequent surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 30,749,139 people. Tenei is mostly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Tenei reside; 86 percent reside in Southern Africa and 86 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. Tenei is also the 137,629th most frequently used given name worldwide, held by 2,808 people.
This surname is most frequent in Lesotho, where it is borne by 190 people, or 1 in 10,698. In Lesotho Tenei is most frequent in: Berea District, where 79 percent reside, Mafeteng District, where 12 percent reside and Maseru District, where 7 percent reside. Barring Lesotho Tenei occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent reside and South Africa, where 6 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tenei
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