Than

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Than is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Vietnamese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 2.3K◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 35K
  • USUnited States1 in 241K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
122 ●

26K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 175K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Than is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#17936,95118K rec.—listedThan122
MY Malaysia—1,846632 rec.——Than22
US United States—1,3814.9K rec.1 in 241K2.9KThan77
IN India—841629 rec.—25Than10
ID Indonesia—368495 rec.——Than47
SG Singapore—159282 rec.——Than11
GB United Kingdom—146222 rec.——Than10
CA Canada—64209 rec.——Than16
SA Saudi Arabia—4936 rec.——Than10
SE Sweden—43△9 rec.1 in 237K43—5
BR Brazil—33—1 in 6.4M34——
PH Philippines—2437 rec.——Than7

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi41K26%
  • Vietnamese40K26%
  • 21K14%
  • Burmese20K13%
  • English18K11%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi41,08326%
Vietnamese39,94726%
21,18214%
Burmese19,64513%
English17,58511%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Than is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name43K records spelled Than34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Khmer

    Also written Thanu, Thaan, থাঁন, Ťhãñ, থান

  • English given name34K records spelled Than27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Thaen, Thân, Thän, Thån, Thận

  • Burmese given name33K records spelled Than95 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, United States, Singapore

    Also written Thañ, Tĥãñ, Țhan, Ťhâñ, Thãñ

  • a separate given name24K records spelled Than10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Thaṅ, Thāṅ, Thản, Thàn, Thán

  • a separate given name15K records spelled Than31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Thấn, Thäñ, Ťhầñ, T̶͇̟̳̃́̈́́̍̿h̴̺̓̾̾̃̈̐́̄̂ͅͅắ̵͕̍͑̈́͐͐͒̅̓͒̎̕n̴̨̧̡̲̙͈̬̦̳̣̞̗̜̟͛̀͑̊̽̌, Thản

  • French given name2.4K records spelled Than13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Thân, Thần, Thăn, Thẫn, Thận

  • Khmer given name1.8K records spelled Than6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Cambodia, Philippines

    Also written Thān, Thaṅ, Thần, Thân, Thận

50 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses●

Than is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, coal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, persönliches Merkmal: zu Zahn/Than(e); 194 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • She who had to be loved.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In kr, a cat, and live in holes which they dig in the ground. kelegua, a. infested with this kind of dogs. teleno, s. the camp of the king and the great men who ac- company him to battle. It is always a few miles behind

    as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)

  • In Russian, var of Tan.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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●

010020030040019201940196019802000310 · 1984

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Than in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19181
19191
19221
19233
19243
19253
19263
19274
19286
19297
19304
19317
193225
193323
193437
193515
193619
193731
193831
193932
194035
194148
194274
194360
194494
194568
194688
1947102
194888
1949102
195082
195185
1952151
1953110
1954159
195595
1956148
1957185
1958166
1959190
1960160
1961157
1962255
1963194
1964231
1965205
1966204
1967209
1968213
1969237
1970234
1971224
1972251
1973254
1974218
1975224
1976242
1977227
1978246
1979202
1980265
1981214
1982269
1983276
1984310
1985240
1986297
1987277
1988246
1989246
1990253
1991262
1992304
1993285
1994283
1995266
1996140
1997103
1998102
20071
20111
20121
201411
201510

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 38 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Than
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.9K#10,664
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#14,930
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,008
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#7,209
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020757#7,209
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1984310—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992304—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1986297—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993285—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1994283—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987277—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983276—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 240 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Than?
We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Than (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Than have the most bearers?
Than is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled than.
How common is Than compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Than is the 179th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Than a male or female name?
Than 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.
What does the name Than mean?
Recorded meaning: Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Than” — the 179th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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