Aang was cursed as the last airbender - hence the name of the show, Avatar: The Last Airbender - but sadly, he passed his curse onto his son, Tenzin, when he died. Underneath the surface of being animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra both told profound stories, with adult themes and real-world consequences, and they didn't hold back on challenging their characters and viewers. This was evident from the moment it was revealed Aang was the last survivor of his entire culture.
Not long after Katara broke the iceberg holding Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender's pilot, Aang found out that everyone he knew and loved had been killed by Fire Lord Sozin and the Fire Nation. People knew that the next Avatar after Roku (a firebender) was an airbender, but no one knew who it was because Aang hadn't come of age yet and hadn't been revealed to the world. So when a comet came rocketing past the Earth, Sozin seized the opportunity to launch an invasion of the Air Temples around the world, ultimately committing genocide to kill the Avatar.
Because Aang fled the Southern Air Temple shortly before Sozin's attack, he unwittingly escaped the clutches of death and became the last airbender. He remained that way for years - including the hundred years he was in the ice - until Katara gave birth to their son, Tenzin, in 119 AG. Tenzin was the first airbender to be born in over a hundred years, and for the first time in a long time, Aang was no longer the last airbender. But when Aang died in 153 AG, he left behind Tenzin as the last airbender.
Sure, Korra was born right after Aang died, and since she's the Avatar, she's technically an airbender too - but it took time for the White Lotus to find her and for Tenzin to later teach her about airbending. In that time, Tenzin had children of his own, all of whom were airbenders. Jinora was the first to be born - in the year 160 AG - so technically, Tenzin spent seven years of his life as the last airbender, almost as much as Aang if one were to omit the time he spent hibernating.
Luckily, Tenzin saw something his father never did: the return of the airbenders. Thanks to Korra and the Harmonic Convergence, non-benders around the world, from every nation, suddenly developed airbending powers. Tenzin spent years awaiting the time he could train all-new airbenders and revive the Air Nomad culture that had been mostly forgotten, and he finally got that opportunity in Legend of Korra season 3. So while Tenzin shared Aang's curse in being the last airbender, he was blessed to see the airbenders return after more than a century.
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