Tsan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Cleave
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Tsan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Taiwan than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 20Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 86Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 323K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Taiwan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Cleave
Cited for this meaning 1
- An English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tsan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TW Taiwan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Tsan | 53 |
| US United States | 825 | 1 in 403K | 827 | Tsan | 202 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Tsan | 17 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Tsan | 41 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 336K | — | Tsan | 40 |
| SG Singapore | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Tsan | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 26 | 1 in 323K | 26 | Tsan | 9 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Tsan 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 cdo, Promptly, quickly, with haste ； to hasten, to ac- celerate.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, To accumulate, to collect together, to hoard up, to store.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In frp, alternative form of champ (“field”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, granary, treasury
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 827 | #30,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 825 | #28,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 589 | #35,994 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 26 | #30,302 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Tsan mean, and where does it come from?
- Cleave Recorded by An English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect.
- In which country does Tsan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Tsan in Taiwan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tsan.
- How common is the name Tsan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 825 people named Tsan in 2010, about 1 in 403 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tsanThe 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, “Tsan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.