French: from Old French tendre ‘tender’, ‘gentle’, a
nickname perhaps for someone who was in love or for someone young, in
the bloom of youth, possibly the youngest member of a group of
workers, for instance.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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