Tahun

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A year: (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Tahun is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

  • MYMalaysia
  • PHPhilippines
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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 (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
11 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

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 year:

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tahun is found

(measured from records)

Tahun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Tahun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States——Tahun11
MY Malaysia——Tahun4
PH Philippines——Tahun1
VU Vanuatu—1—1

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: Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2022 Snap Election consolidated candidate list. 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)

Tahun is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Israel, Jordan

    Also written Ṭāḥūn

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Ṭāḥūn

  • Slovak surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Ťahún, Ťahúň, Ťahun

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Tahun 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 Indonesian, year:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In poz-mly-pro, year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, year (solar, lunar, seasonal from rice crop to rice crop, etc.)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In kaw, year; (seasonal) crop

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In dtp, jungle, wilderness

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tahun mean, and where does it come from?
A year: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Tahun have the most bearers?
Tahun is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled tahun.

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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, “Tahun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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