How rare is the name Tan?

6,530 people in the United States have the first name Tan, about 1 in 46,253. It ranks #3,267 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TAN

#3,267

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,530
About
1 in 46,253
This common or more
82%
Who bears it

Of the 6,530 people named Tan, 91.1% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 3.4% as White and 3.1% as Black. 83.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tan peaked in 1985, when 29 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762019
Peak year
1985
Births that year
29
In 2019
8 ▼72%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 597 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #6,221. The largest share of babies named Tan, 53.1%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#12,66444
1980s#6,221208
1990s#8,769178
2000s#14,451120
2010s#24,98847
Generation X 1965–8011.4%
Millennials 1981–9653.1%
Generation Z 1997–1231.8%
2013 and later3.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Tan

#3,265 Salina · 6,533#3,266 Andi · 6,531#3,268 Enid · 6,529#3,269 Rohit · 6,522

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tan, most common first.

#2,164 Tam · 12,308#2,817 Tana · 8,201#11,432 Tani · 1,121#23,816 Tawn · 409#24,726 Tane · 388#26,834 Tanu · 345#31,394 Tanh · 273#32,785 Tany · 255

Also a last name

As a last name, Tan ranks #856 of 156,621, with 39,432 people. See Tan as a last name

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