Tânn

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tânn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German surname, from a rare literary word meaning "forest" (see below).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 169K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 206K
  • SESweden1 in 537K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,612 people, 2010

Record sources
7 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tann in US United States.

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)

German surname, from a rare literary word meaning "forest" (see below).

Cited for this meaning 4

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tânn 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.

Where Tânn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,6121 in 206K1.6KTann7
FI Finland331 in 169K33—1
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M24—1
PL Poland211 in 1.8M17—1
SE Sweden191 in 537K19—1
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—2

1,612 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Tânn is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Tann

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Tann, T-Ann, T'Ann, Tänn, Tãññ

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tânn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tânn mean, and where does it come from?
German surname, from a rare literary word meaning "forest" (see below). Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Tânn a male or female name?
Tânn 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.
In which country does Tânn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Tânn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tann.
Where is Tânn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tânn is densest in Finland — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tânn?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,612 people named Tânn in 2010, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.

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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, “Tânn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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