Tainan
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tainan is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century.
- BRBrazil1 in 40K◐
- PTPortugal1 in 840K
- ARArgentina1 in 46M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.2K ●
- Sources
- 95 ●
- 1 in 40K ◐
across 1 country
3.9K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Roughly 5.2K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 40K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese71K93%
- English5.3K7%
- Chinese281%
- Spanish271%
- ptbr221%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 70,671 | 93% |
| English | 5,308 | 7% |
| Chinese | 28 | 1% |
| Spanish | 27 | 1% |
| ptbr | 22 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tainan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Tainan (a city in Taiwan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, city, Taiwan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 4 |
| 1980 | 25 |
| 1990 | 540 |
| 2000 | 3,262 |
| 2010 | 4,769 |
| 2020 | 5,154 |
| 2022 | 5,236 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 7 years between 1970–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.2K | #2,919 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 3.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.1K | #1,733 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.1K | #2,063 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #2,651 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #2,651 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 540 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 22 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tainan?
- We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Tainan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Tainan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.2 thousand people bear Tainan in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tainan.
- Where is Tainan most common?
- Tainan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Tainan a male or female name?
- Tainan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Tainan mean?
- Recorded meaning: A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tainan”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.