Tenuta

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian Tenuta. === Proper noun === Tenuta (plural Tenutas) A surname from Italian. ==== Statistics ==== According to the 2010 United States Census, Tenuta is the 38948th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 566 individuals. Tenuta is most common among White (95.58%) individuals. === Further reading === Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tenuta”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. == Italian == === Etymology === Perhaps from tenuta (“estate, land holding”), a nickname for the owner of a large property or for someone who worked on one. === Proper noun === Tenuta m or f by sense a surname