Than
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: coal
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰaŋ˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Than is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 20K
- USUnited States1 in 156K
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
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Than is read(measured from records)
Than is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Vietnamese30%
coal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Than in Hindi.
- English15%
Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Burmese14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Than in Burmese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Than 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 | #183 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Than | 125 |
| CN China | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Than | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Than | 54 |
| US United States | — | 2,138 | 1 in 156K | 2.9K | Than | 75 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Than | 33 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Than | 11 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Than | 7 |
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. 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)
Than is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, persönliches Merkmal: zu Zahn/Than(e); 194 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
She who had to be loved.
as a nameThe African book of names
In kr, a cat, and live in holes which they dig in the ground. kelegua, a. infested with this kind of dogs. teleno, s. the camp of the king and the great men who ac- company him to battle. It is always a few miles behind
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Russian, var of Tan.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Khin Than Nweb. 1942MMbadminton player
- Ma Than Ngweb. 1945MMbadminton player
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 40 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #7,209 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 757 | #7,209 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Than come from?
- Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Than?
- In the etymology graph, Thanne is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Than?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰaŋ˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Than a male or female name?
- Than 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.
- What does the name Than mean?
- In Vietnamese, coal
- In which country does Than have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Than in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled than.
- How common is the name Than?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,138 people named Than in 2020, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
- How common is Than compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Than is the 183rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Than?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thanThe 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, “Than” — the 183rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.