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Girl name origins & meanings
- Vietnamese : New
- Russian : Fairy princess
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Leather worker
- Burmese : Million
How Popular Is The Name Tan
Family name origins & meanings
- Chinese :
from the name of the state of Tan during the Zhou dynasty. After Wu Wang established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 bc, he enfeoffed the state of Tan to a descendant of the model emperor Yu (2205–2198 bc), with the status of Viscount. Descendants adopted the name of the state Tan as their surname. - Chinese :
said to be from the name of a certain King Tan of the state of Song, a 36th-generation descendant of its founder (see Song). - Chinese :
variant of Chen. - Chinese :
there are two groups of bearers of the character for this surname: one pronounced Tan, and the other Qin (see Qin), although both are represented with the same character. - Korean : there are three Chinese characters for this surname; two of them are used by clans that now have only one surviving family each, according to a recent census. Some records indicate that there are 10 clans that use the third character for their surname, but only two can be documented: the Kangüm clan and the Yönan clan. Neither of these clans is very large.
- Filipino : unexplained.