How common is the surname Tennis?

1,574 people in the United States had the surname Tennis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. It ranked 17,789th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tennis?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Tennis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Tennis getting more or less common?

About as common. 1,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,574 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Tennis

A surname, carried by 1,574 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tennis is more common than 89% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,574 people named Tennis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,574.

#17,789

rank among US surnames

1,574

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #16,729)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,784	Mallari	1,575	196,029
#17,789	Lafortune	1,574	196,153
#17,798	Baas	1,573	196,278

Who is named Tennis

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Tennis identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tennis

Tennis has the Soundex code T520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T520.

Questions

How common is the surname Tennis?: 1,574 people in the United States had the surname Tennis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. It ranked 17,789th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tennis?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Tennis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Tennis getting more or less common?: About as common. 1,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,574 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.