Tennessee Surname

678,631st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 439 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Guyana

Tennessee Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tennessee Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4061:892,75667,416
Canada151:2,456,373146,130
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
Guyana31:254,07411,262
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
England11:55,718,059489,080
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States511:984,68058,342

Tennessee (512) may also be a first name.

Tennessee Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tennessee Come From? nationality or country of origin

Tennessee is found most frequently in The United States. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Tennessee? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 678,631st most widespread last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 16,600,332 people. The surname Tennessee is mostly found in The Americas, where 97 percent of Tennessee are found; 96 percent are found in North America and 96 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 373,684th most frequent first name throughout the world It is held by 512 people.

It is most widespread in The United States, where it is carried by 406 people, or 1 in 892,756. In The United States Tennessee is most frequent in: Texas, where 18 percent are found, Virginia, where 18 percent are found and Louisiana, where 15 percent are found. Excluding The United States Tennessee exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Canada, where 3 percent are found and Australia, where 1 percent are found.

Tennessee Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Tennessee has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 796 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Tennessee Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Tennessee last name are 14.04% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 67.27% being registered with the party.

Tennessee earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 16.72% less than the national average, earning $35,936 USD per year.

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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
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  • 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 Tennessee
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