The tennis Surname

tennis Name Meaning and History

Possibly an altered spelling of North German or Dutch Tönnis, a short form of the personal name Antonius (see Anthony).
English (Welsh borders): origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of Dennis 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of tennis Families in the US in 1920

Number of tennis families

21-40

8-20

1-7

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Caroline Lucinda Tennis Ladue	cpbruns_1	2
Caroline Lucinda Tennis	PaulaBrunson	1
Tommy Everett Tennis	tmjjlawrence	2
Tennis family	Margaret_Englan	3
Tennis/Yost	DOldfather3971	1
Mike Tennis	arcpeach	6
Tennis/Harmon	Maxine Davies	1
TENNIS/STALLINGS family, Christian, Greene Counties, Missouri	MargaretGraham369	1
Tennis/Brown Connection	n_e_t	7
my mother's madian name is Tennis	brattfry71	6

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