敦
given name · Han script
Meaning, in Chinese: from the Zi clan; descendant of Bo of the Song office of Left/Right Minister
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008, 2004
敦 is a male given name written in the Han script, most frequently recorded in China.
- JPJapan
- TWTaiwan
- CNChina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Zi clan; descendant of Bo of the Song office of Left/Right Minister
Cited for this meaning 1
- 中国姓氏大辞典 (Chinese Surnames Mega-Dictionary)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How 敦 is read
(measured from records)敦 is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Chinese77%
from the Zi clan; descendant of Bo of the Song office of Left/Right Minister
as a name中国姓氏大辞典 (Chinese Surnames Mega-Dictionary)
敦煌 ~ 燉煌 Dūnhuáng
as a wordBaxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014)
manage, direct
as a wordBaxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014)
solid, thick
as a wordBaxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014)
angry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Japanese23%
kindness, affinity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- CNChina
- JPJapan
- TWTaiwan
- KRSouth Korea
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008 | 2004 | — | — |
| CN China | ChineseNames: household-registered population — surnames + given names (no time axis) | — | — | — |
| CN China | ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008 | 1995 | — | — |
| CN China | ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008 | 1985 | — | — |
| CN China | ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008 | 1975 | — | — |
| CN China | ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008 | 1965 | — | — |
| CN China | ChineseNames: given names by birth decade/cohort 1930-2008 | 1945 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 敦 mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Zi clan; descendant of Bo of the Song office of Left/Right Minister Recorded by 中国姓氏大辞典 (Chinese Surnames Mega-Dictionary).
- Is 敦 a male or female name?
- 敦 is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does 敦 have the most bearers?
- 敦 is most frequently recorded in China.
What do you want to know about 敦?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%E6%95%A6The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “敦”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.