Pronunciation | Tan (Hokkien Chinese and Mandarin Chinese) Tan (Japanese) Dam (Korean) Đàm (Vietnamese) Tam (Cantonese Chinese and Hakka Chinese) Tham (Hokkien Chinese and Teochew Chinese) Ham, Hom, Hum, Tom, Thom (Toisanese Chinese) |
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Language(s) | Chinese, Japanese |
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Region of origin | China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam |
Tan | |||
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Traditional Chinese | 譚 | ||
Simplified Chinese | 谭 | ||
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Tan is a common Chinese surname 譚, and is considered the 56th most common. [1]
Two origins have been suggested for the Tan surname:[2]
A study by geneticist Yuan Yida has found that people with either of the two Tan surnames are especially concentrated in Hunan Province which would tend to support these accounts. This does not mean that they are the most common surnames in that province.[1]
Tan is the Chinese character's Hanyu Pinyin romanisation in Mandarin Chinese. It is pronounced and romanised differently in different languages and dialects.[3]