Tắn

given name · Latin script

Meaning: North Central Vietnam form of rắn (“snake”)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Tắn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 851(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 51K
  • DKDenmark1 in 69K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈120,000 people, est.

Sources
185 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 851 (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tan in VN Vietnam, US United States and Tấn in ID Indonesia.

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)

North Central Vietnam form of rắn (“snake”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tắn 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 Tắn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#97≈120,000 est.≈1 in 851listedTan185
US United States—6,5301 in 51K39KTan148
ID Indonesia—≈630 est.≈1 in 422K—Tấn1
BR Brazil—1321 in 1.6M132——
DK Denmark—851 in 69K171——
FI Finland—671 in 83K452—4
SI Slovenia—221 in 96K22——

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SURS — resident population given names. 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)

Tắn is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Singapore, Malaysia

    Also written Tan, Tân, Tấn, Tần, Tán

  • Greek surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Singapore, China

    Also written Tan, Ταν, Tán, Tấn, Thann

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tắn 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 Tắn mean, and where does it come from?
North Central Vietnam form of rắn (“snake”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Tắn a male or female name?
Tắn is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Tắn have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 116 thousand people named Tắn in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tan.
How common is the name Tắn?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,530 people named Tắn in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
How common is Tắn compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Tắn is the 97th most common given name of 73,918 given names 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, “Tắn” — the 97th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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