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Tennyson - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Tennyson

[ 3 syll. ten-ny-son, te-nnys-on ] The boy name Tennyson is pronounced as TEHNahSahN KEY. Tennyson is an English name of Old Greek origin. Tennyson is a variant of the name Dennis (Dutch, English, French, and German).

Tennyson is not popular as a baby boy name. It is not listed within the top 1000. Among the family of boy names directly related to Tennyson, Dennis (Dutch, English, French, and German) was the most regularly used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Tennyson include Thompson (English), Timkin (English), and Tomkin (English).

KEY: Pronunciation for Tennyson: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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