Tån

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tån is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 39th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish طاڭ (taŋ), from Common Turkic *taŋ.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 12K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 13K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

32,120 people, 2010

Sources
294 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tan in US United States, SG Singapore.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Tån: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Tån
  1. Ottoman Turkishطاڭtaŋ(measured from records)
  2. Common Turkic*taŋ(measured from records)

From Ottoman Turkish طاڭ (taŋ), from Common Turkic *taŋ.

Sources 9

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tån counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Tån is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—32,1201 in 10K39KTan294
CH Switzerland—6511 in 13K651—16
ES Spain—6511 in 77K651—25
SE Sweden—4791 in 21K479—17
FI Finland—4521 in 12K452—8
NO Norway—3761 in 15K376—7
SG Singapore#39———Tan166

32,120 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tån is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Tan, Taen, Tân, Tấn, Tañ

  • Vietnamese given name84 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Malaysia, Singapore

    Also written Tan, Tấn, Tân, Đàm, Tần

  • a separate surname53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Singapore, Malaysia

    Also written Tan, Tân, Tấn, Tần, Tán

  • Hungarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Hungary, Philippines, Singapore

    Also written Tan, Tân, Tán, Tấn, Tần

  • French surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia

    Also written Tan, Tân, Tấn, Qod, Tãn

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tån is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, definite singular of tå

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tån under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tån mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish طاڭ (taŋ), from Common Turkic *taŋ. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 7 other sources.
In which country does Tån have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Tån, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tan.
Where is Tån most common?
Tån is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tån?
In the United States, the national register counted 32,120 people named Tån in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Tån compared with other names?
In Singapore, Tån is the 39th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tån” — the 39th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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