Trấn
loc · Latin script
Meaning: North Central Vietnam form of rận (“body louse”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Trấn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 840(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8K
- FIFinland1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- 1 in 840 (inferred from the name graph)
188,498 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tran in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden.
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 rận (“body louse”)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Trấn is found
(measured from records)Trấn 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #610 | 188,498 | 1 in 1.8K | 223K | Tran | 232 |
| NO Norway | #782 | 6,506 | 1 in 840 | 6.5K | Tran | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,262 | 1 in 3.1K | 3.3K | Tran | 35 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,911 | 1 in 1.9K | 2.9K | — | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,214 | 1 in 3.8K | 2.2K | — | 23 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,825 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.8K | — | 1 |
188,498 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wang Zhenb. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese racewalker
- Xiang Zhennot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104800
- Li Zhennot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 164062
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trấn mean, and where does it come from?
- North Central Vietnam form of rận (“body louse”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Trấn?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 188 thousand people named Trấn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tran. After it come Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Trấn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trấn is densest in Norway — about 1 in 840 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trấn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 188,498 people named Trấn in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Trấn compared with other names?
- In the United States, Trấn is the 610th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tr%E1%BA%A5nThe 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, “Trấn” — the 610th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.