Tanatan Surname

1,082,743rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 228 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Tanatan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Tanatan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines1591:636,71867,462
India401:19,176,635286,670
Thailand131:5,433,719375,884
Niger91:2,132,44640,124
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Tanatan (496) may also be a first name.

Tanatan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Tanatan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Tanatan (Bengali: টনটন, Hindi: टनटन, Marathi: टनटन, Oriya: ତନାତନ) is found in The Philippines more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Tanatan? popularity and diffusion

Tanatan is the 1,082,743rd most commonly held family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 31,962,921 people. The last name Tanatan occurs predominantly in Asia, where 95 percent of Tanatan live; 77 percent live in Southeast Asia and 69 percent live in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 381,018th most frequently used first name world-wide It is held by 496 people.

The surname is most commonly occurring in The Philippines, where it is held by 159 people, or 1 in 636,718. In The Philippines Tanatan is most frequent in: Western Visayas, where 54 percent live, Calabarzon, where 13 percent live and National Capital Region, where 13 percent live. Outside of The Philippines this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in India, where 18 percent live and Thailand, where 6 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Tanatan Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Tanatan in the Bengali language
টনটনtanatana-
Tanatan in the Marathi language
टनटनtanatana-
Tanatan in the Hindi language
टनटनtanatana94.74
टनाटनtanatana5.26
Tanatan in the Oriya language
ତନାତନtanatana50
ଟନଟନ୍tanatan50

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tanatan
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