Tannen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtænən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tannen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BMBermuda≈1 in 42K
- DEGermany≈1 in 445K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
316 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Bermuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tannen 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 | — | 316 | 1 in 1.1M | 342 | Tannen | 168 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 445K | listed | Tannen | 39 |
| IN India | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Tannen | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 24 | Tannen | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Tannen | 16 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Tannen | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Tannen | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 752K | — | Tannen | 9 |
| BM Bermuda | #423 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Tannen | 1 |
316 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; the dfa-band-4 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Tannen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite masculine singular of tann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Julius Tannenb. 1880USAmerican comedian (1880–1965)
- William Tannenb. 1911USAmerican actor (1911-1976)
- Charles Tannenb. 1915USactor (1915-1980)
- William Tannenb. 1942USAmerican film director, producer and screenwriter
- Deborah Tannenb. 1945USAmerican sociolinguist
- Steve Tannenb. 1948USAmerican football player, cornerback, safety, defensive back
- Val Tannenb. 1953UScomputer scientist
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 342 | #63,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 316 | #63,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 286 | #64,934 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Tannen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtænən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tannen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 316 people named Tannen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tannen.
- How common is the name Tannen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 316 people named Tannen in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Tannen compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Tannen is the 423rd most common surname of 6,699 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/tannenThe 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, “Tannen” — the 423rd most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.