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tennis Name Meaning and History

  1. Possibly an altered spelling of North German or Dutch Tönnis, a short form of the personal name Antonius (see Anthony).
  2. 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
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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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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