Tuan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/twaŋ˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tuan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 117(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K
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)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117 (inferred from the name graph)
≈840,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #8 | ≈840,000 est. | ≈1 in 117 | listed | Tuan | 219 |
| CN China | — | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Tuan | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | #906 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Tuan | 44 |
| US United States | — | 13,719 | 1 in 24K | 13K | Tuan | 293 |
| AO Angola | #226 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Tuan | 3 |
| AU Australia | #981 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 4 | Tuan | 141 |
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: the wgnd-vn-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tuan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Roman; from a place-name
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Indonesian, master, lord
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nij, lord; used to address all Europeans and those who have made the hajj
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbc, lord; term used for Europeans and in many cases for chiefs
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btx, lord; European; in names for various gods
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tuan Lamb. 1966VNVietnamese-Canadian poker player
- Anh Tuấnb. 1974VNVietnamese television presenter and producer
- Tuan Andrew Nguyenb. 1976VNVietnamese-American artist (born 1976)
- Tuan Leb. 1978USAmerican poker player
- Tuan Lab. 1984USbadminton player
- Isaacb. 1988VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer and actor
- Kiều Minh Tuấnb. 1988VNVietnamese actor
- Trần Hữu Tuấn Báchb. 1989VNVietnamese composer
- Jack – J97b. 1997VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer-songwriter and rapper (born 1997)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,000 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 263 | #2,000 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1992 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2016 | 1 | #787 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #787 |
| VN Vietnam | WGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tuan?
- A machine transcription gives /twaŋ˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- What does the name Tuan mean, and where does it come from?
- A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tuan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 841 thousand people named Tuan in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tuan.
- Is Tuan a male or female name?
- Tuan 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.
- How common is the name Tuan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,719 people named Tuan in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Tuan compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Tuan is the 8th most common given name of 73,918 given names 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/tuanThe 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, “Tuan” — the 8th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.