Thuan

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

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

Thuan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 460
  • USUnited States1 in 114K
  • ISIceland1 in 58K

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

≈3.3K

across 9 countries

Sources
153

107K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 58K

Iceland

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Thuan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#71185,10295K rec.listedThuan153
US United States2,9229.6K rec.1 in 114K2.9KThuan123
MY Malaysia814878 rec.Thuan22
CA Canada417454 rec.Thuan24
BR Brazil2611 in 811K261
GB United Kingdom208424 rec.Thuan14
ID Indonesia12333 rec.Thuan16
SE Sweden885 rec.1 in 116K882
SG Singapore7189 rec.Thuan16
RU Russia3852 rec.Thuan4
NO Norway2224 rec.112Thuan7
CN China1817 rec.Thuan4

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

Languages

  • Vietnamese133K70%
  • English32K17%
  • 7.6K4%
  • Spanish3.5K2%
  • Portuguese2.9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese132,90970%
English31,93917%
7,5894%
Spanish3,5092%
Portuguese2,9312%

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

Thuan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name39K records spelled Thuan18 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Thu-An, Thuận, Thuần, Thuấn, Thuân

  • a separate given name38K records spelled Thuan35 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Thu-An, Thuận, Thuần, Thụận, Thuậń

  • a separate given name8.3K records spelled Thuan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands

    Also written Thuận, Thuà̂n, Thuã̂n, Thūan, Thuân

  • Spanish given name7.3K records spelled Thuan13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, El Salvador, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Thuận, Thuân, Thuần, Thuấn, Thụân

  • French given name1.7K records spelled Thuan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Thuận, Thuân, Thu-An, Thuấn, Thuần

  • Chinese given name793 records spelled Thuan6 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Thuận, Thu-An, Thuân, Thuần, Thuấn

  • Czech given name612 records spelled Thuan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Thuận, Thuấn, Thuần, Ťhūận

  • Khmer given name583 records spelled Thuan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Malaysia

    Also written Thuận, Thuấn

39 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

Thuan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Khmer, {- nS) p. to complete^ to suffice, to be enough; to cope with. Ex ,: [gifics' a]cuM& HSfiss&Mac^cumrifimtnfnigjicsis C? 1 I gave him only five riels, which was not enough to repay him for the help which he gave me. 2. (in) p. to take good care (of). tLiU

    as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)

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

05101519801990200015 · 1981

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Thuan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1979–2009
Yearrecords
19796
19805
198115
198215
19837
198412
198511
198615
19876
19886
19897
19907
199114
19929
199311
19958
20005
20016
20028
200311
20047
20055
20076
20095

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)24 years between 1979–2009. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Thuan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.9K#4,526
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#4,526
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022261
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)255#21,036
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010206
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)196#25,546
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)192#12,065
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000137
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)112#7,146
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1990106
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)88#9,332
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)78#5,997

Reference works 1

  • Dictionary of American 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 · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Thuan?
We estimate roughly 3.3 thousand people bear Thuan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Thuan have the most bearers?
Thuan is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled thuan.
How common is Thuan compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Thuan is the 71st most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Thuan a male or female name?
Thuan 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.
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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, “Thuan” — the 71st most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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