Tuan

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

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

Tuan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam1 in 78◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 11K
  • AUAustralia1 in 13K

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

≈15K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
238 ●

791K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.5K ◐

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●

A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tuan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#81,098,498597K rec.—listedTuan212
US United States—13,456148K rec.1 in 25K13KTuan238
AU Australia#9758,6517.5K rec.—4Tuan133
GB United Kingdom—8,2958.8K rec.—listedTuan50
MY Malaysia#8625,7808.5K rec.——Tuan42
DE Germany—4,2904.2K rec.—2Tuan109
CA Canada—3,8284K rec.—10Tuan60
RU Russia—650765 rec.——Tuan17
SE Sweden—490△87 rec.1 in 21K490—18
IT Italy—477563 rec.—listedTuan13
AO Angola#145402560 rec.——Tuan3
PH Philippines—3854.3K rec.——Tuan31

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

Languages●

  • Vietnamese835K73%
  • English148K13%
  • 47K4%
  • Malay18K2%
  • Spanish16K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese834,62273%
English148,21813%
46,5624%
Malay17,7742%
Spanish15,7761%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name247K records spelled Tuan72 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Tuấn, Tuân, Ťûấñ, Tuấñ, Ťuấn

  • a separate given name51K records spelled Tuan11 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Tuấn, Tūan, Tuán, Tuân, Tuẩn

  • Spanish given name25K records spelled Tuan4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tuấn, Tuân

  • Indonesian given name8.8K records spelled Tuan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Philippines

    Also written Tuấn, Tuâñ, Tuân

  • French given name8.1K records spelled Tuan13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Tuấn, Tuân, Tùan, Tuän, Tuấñ

  • Czech given name6.2K records spelled Tuan11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Tuấn, Tuán, Tuân

  • Thai given name2.5K records spelled Tuan48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Malaysia, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written เตือน, Tua, Tuean, 'เตือน, เตื้อน

61 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●

Tuan 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 English, Roman; from a place-name

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Indonesian, master, lord

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

  • In nij, lord; used to address all Europeans and those who have made the hajj

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In bbc, lord; term used for Europeans and in many cases for chiefs

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In btx, lord; European; in names for various gods

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

02550751001980199020002010202093 · 1982

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Tuan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1971–2021
Yearrecords
19715
197516
197628
197725
197849
197947
198057
198175
198293
198383
198477
198580
198672
198759
198859
198955
199043
199145
199245
199340
199429
199526
199624
199717
199810
199924
200030
200112
200214
200321
200411
200512
200613
200712
200816
200912
201011
20118
201211
20139
20159
20169
20175
20187
20196
20216

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1971–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Tuan Lam, b. 1966Anh Tuấn, b. 1974Tuan Andrew Nguyen, b. 1976Tuan Le, b. 1978Tuan La, b. 1984Isaac, b. 1988Kiều Minh Tuấn, b. 1988Trần Hữu Tuấn Bách, b. 1989Jack – J97, b. 1997

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 55 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Tuan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013K#2,000
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020558#41,948
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—490#2,821
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—481#2,115
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010465#45,886
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—406#2,889
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000385#50,903
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—299#19,829
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—288#9,047
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022281—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—267#19,968
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020263#2,000

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 183 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tuan?
We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Tuan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Tuan have the most bearers?
Tuan is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled tuan.
How common is Tuan compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Tuan is the 8th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
Is Tuan a male or female name?
Tuan 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 Tuan mean?
Recorded meaning: A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
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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, “Tuan” — the 8th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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