Tenyo Surname
Approximately 72 people bear this surname
Tenyo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 60 | 1:2,952,379 | 92,303 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Tenyo (1,627) may also be a first name.
Tenyo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tenyo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tenyo occurs most in Nigeria. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tenyo? popularity and diffusion
Tenyo is the 2,237,939th most frequently occurring family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 101,215,916 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Tenyo live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Tenyo is also the 191,316th most frequently occurring first name globally. It is borne by 1,627 people.
This last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 60 people, or 1 in 2,952,379. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Delta, where 98 percent live and Bayelsa, where 2 percent live. Other than Nigeria this surname exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 4 percent live and Pakistan, where 3 percent live.
Tenyo Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Tenyo has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Tenyo surname declined 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Tenyo
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