Thañ

given name · Latin script

Thañ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-Euro.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 156K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 237K
  • DKDenmark1 in 345K

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)

2,138 people, 2020

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Than in MM Myanmar (Burma), US United States.

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 Thañ: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Thañ
  1. Middle Englishthan(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishþanne(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*þan“at that“at that, at that time, then”(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*tóm(measured from records)

From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.

Sources 3

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thañ 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 Thañ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,1381 in 156K2.9KThan130
SE Sweden—431 in 237K43—5
BR Brazil—331 in 6.4M34——
DK Denmark—171 in 345K34——
FI Finland—81 in 696K61—2
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——
MM Myanmar (Burma)#14——listedThan86

2,138 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Thañ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Than, Thaen, Thân, Thän, Thần

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 Thañ 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 Thañ mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-Euro… Recorded by The African book of names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
Is Thañ a male or female name?
Thañ 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 Thañ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Thañ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled than.
Where is Thañ most common?
Thañ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 156 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Thañ?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,138 people named Thañ in 2020, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
How common is Thañ compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Thañ is the 14th most common given name of 9,528 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, “Thañ” — the 14th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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