Thein
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈθaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 37th most common surname.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 594(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8Kas Tran
- NONorway1 in 840as Tran
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Thein itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 594 (inferred from the name graph)
188,498 named Tran, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tran in 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thein 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 | — | 188,498as Tran | 1 in 1.8K | 223K | Thein | 134 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #37 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 594 | listed | Thein | 91 |
| IN India | — | 8,258as Tern | 1 in 161K | 8.3K | Thein | 10 |
| NO Norway | — | 6,506as Tran | 1 in 840 | 6.5K | Tran | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,262as Tran | 1 in 3.1K | 3.3K | Tran | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,911as Tran | 1 in 1.9K | 2.9K | — | 3 |
188,498 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling tran. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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). 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)
- Pavel Theinb. 1898CZCzechoslovak lawyer (1898-1976)
- Hanuš Theinb. 1904CZCzech theater director, music educator and opera singer (1904-1974)
- Ulrich Theinb. 1930DEactor, Film director, Screenwriter (1930–1995)
- Swee Lay Theinb. 1952MYMalaysian haematologist
- Alexandra Theinb. 1963DEGerman politician
- Nilar Theinb. 1972MMBurmese democracy activist
- Philipp Neumann-Theinb. 1975DE1975-
- Joe Theinb. 1991LULuxembourgish politician
- Kurt Theinb. 2000DEGerman association football player
- Andreas TheinDEGerman musician
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,248 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,680 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 120 | #909 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,518 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 28 | #63,922 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #40,013 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,721 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Thein?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθaɪn/ (IPA) for Burmese.
- What are other forms of the name Thein?
- In the etymology graph, Theine is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Thein have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 188 thousand people named Tran, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Thein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 188,498 people named Tran in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Thein compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Thein is the 37th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thein?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/theinThe 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, “Thein” — the 37th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.