Tun Surname
Approximately 536,255 people bear this surname
Tun Surname Definition:
Tun: (Old Norse), the enclosure about a farm, enters into many combinations, as ton and town. Brighton is Brighthelmston, Wolverhampton is Wolfardes-home-field. Chaucer says: “Then saw I but a large field, As farre as ever I might see, Without toune, house or tree.
Read More About This SurnameTun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myanmar | 461,001 | 1:113 | 17 |
| Mexico | 29,127 | 1:4,262 | 561 |
| Guatemala | 11,573 | 1:1,390 | 243 |
| Cambodia | 10,550 | 1:1,468 | 351 |
| Bangladesh | 5,137 | 1:31,021 | 1,980 |
| Thailand | 3,684 | 1:19,174 | 1,554 |
| Vietnam | 3,438 | 1:26,948 | 425 |
| Singapore | 1,943 | 1:2,835 | 247 |
| United States | 1,453 | 1:249,456 | 23,730 |
| Turkey | 1,363 | 1:57,096 | 5,544 |
| Belize | 1,219 | 1:292 | 37 |
| India | 815 | 1:941,185 | 40,394 |
| Malaysia | 631 | 1:46,742 | 3,724 |
| United Arab Emirates | 500 | 1:18,325 | 2,169 |
| Qatar | 490 | 1:4,812 | 503 |
| Papua New Guinea | 468 | 1:17,422 | 1,756 |
| Indonesia | 448 | 1:295,199 | 26,302 |
| Australia | 337 | 1:80,106 | 9,319 |
| Micronesia | 174 | 1:611 | 152 |
| Ukraine | 171 | 1:266,215 | 34,596 |
| Romania | 168 | 1:119,511 | 13,198 |
| Russia | 163 | 1:884,191 | 70,663 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| England | 150 | 1:371,454 | 26,286 |
| Japan | 119 | 1:1,074,322 | 20,778 |
| Hong Kong | 112 | 1:65,495 | 1,203 |
| Canada | 92 | 1:400,496 | 35,373 |
| China | 77 | 1:17,757,423 | 1,003 |
| Taiwan | 47 | 1:498,824 | 3,776 |
| Philippines | 45 | 1:2,249,738 | 125,194 |
| Brunei | 41 | 1:10,213 | 1,246 |
| Kuwait | 39 | 1:97,454 | 10,676 |
| Moldova | 37 | 1:96,253 | 11,707 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| Norway | 30 | 1:171,410 | 20,526 |
| Germany | 27 | 1:2,981,684 | 140,707 |
| South Africa | 27 | 1:2,006,582 | 90,678 |
| New Zealand | 25 | 1:181,133 | 19,287 |
| Tunisia | 22 | 1:27,756 | 4,198 |
| Brazil | 21 | 1:10,194,016 | 213,214 |
| Panama | 19 | 1:205,908 | 5,804 |
| Sweden | 19 | 1:518,250 | 37,550 |
| Spain | 18 | 1:2,597,335 | 59,996 |
| Jamaica | 17 | 1:168,820 | 5,436 |
| Denmark | 15 | 1:376,314 | 25,792 |
| Afghanistan | 14 | 1:2,296,656 | 15,575 |
| Czechia | 14 | 1:759,534 | 67,321 |
| South Korea | 14 | 1:3,660,018 | 674 |
| Pakistan | 12 | 1:14,886,990 | 61,272 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 1:1,535,198 | 78,311 |
| Wales | 11 | 1:281,321 | 15,850 |
| Belarus | 9 | 1:1,055,673 | 72,859 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Kazakhstan | 9 | 1:1,964,722 | 89,832 |
| South Sudan | 9 | 1:1,268,342 | 1,210 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| France | 7 | 1:9,488,960 | 336,266 |
| Italy | 6 | 1:10,192,781 | 121,657 |
| Peru | 6 | 1:5,297,354 | 36,458 |
| Chile | 5 | 1:3,523,295 | 39,650 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 1:1,744,726 | 46,837 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1:193,514 | 7,046 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1:2,986,327 | 84,533 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 1:18,179 | 1,485 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 78 | 1:643,829 | 42,510 |
The alternate forms: Tún (8), Tůn (3), Tün (2) & Tùn (1) are calculated separately.
Tun (1,694,189) may also be a first name.
Tun Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Tun: (Old Norse), the enclosure about a farm, enters into many combinations, as ton and town. Brighton is Brighthelmston, Wolverhampton is Wolfardes-home-field. Chaucer says: “Then saw I but a large field, As farre as ever I might see, Without toune, house or tree.”
And Wyckliffe in his Bible, for “one went to his farm, another to his merchandise,” has “one into his toune,” and in the story of the Prodigal Son the citizen “sente him into his toun to feed swyn.” In Iceland the tun is the field about the house, enclosed and manured. In Scotland it still has this meaning, and it had the same in Devonshire.
User-submitted Reference
Tun is Burmese name. Tun means 'shine' or 'be outstanding' in Burmese. Alternative spelling is "Htun". It is male name and may be rarely used in female namne.Actually Burmese has no surname or family name. A Burmese full name can be a single syllable or multiple syllables. For example, the name of Burmese UN General Secretary is "Thant". His name is only single syllable. Burmese call him "U Thant" where "U" is same as "Mr." in English. When Burmese people have to fill up a from on internet or aboard, they were forced to add family name. So they likely to use the last syllable of their name as a family name.
- yarzaryeniTun Demographics
Average Male Tun Height
170.42 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Tun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tun Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tun (Bengali: টুন, Hindi: तुन, Marathi: तुन, Oriya: ଟୁନ, Russian: Тун, Tibetan: ཀྲུན་) occurs in Myanmar more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant: Tún, Tůn, Tün or Tùn. For other possible spellings of Tun click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tun? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 992nd most frequent last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 13,590 people. Tun occurs mostly in Asia, where 91 percent of Tun reside; 87 percent reside in South Asia and 86 percent reside in Burmo-Asia. Tun is also the 402nd most widespread first name at a global level It is held by 1,694,189 people.
The surname Tun is most frequent in Myanmar, where it is carried by 461,001 people, or 1 in 113. Other than Myanmar it is found in 108 countries. It is also common in Mexico, where 5 percent live and Guatemala, where 2 percent live.
Tun Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Tun has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Tun surname expanded 1,863 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 15,000 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Tun Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Tun last name is predominantly Orthodox (71%) in Russia and Orthodox (100%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Tun last name are 9.85% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 63.08% registered with the political party.
The amount Tun earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 34.37% less than the national average, earning 227,136 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 433.88% more than the national average, earning R 1,268,690 per year; in United States they earn 100% the same as the national average, earning $43,149 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.6% less than the national average, earning $41,934 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tun Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tun in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀྲུན་ | trün | - |
| Tun in the Marathi language | ||
| तुन | tuna | 89.74 |
| तून | tuna | 7.69 |
| टुन | tuna | 2.56 |
| Tun in the Bengali language | ||
| টুন | tuna | 66.67 |
| তুন | tuna | 33.33 |
| Tun in the Oriya language | ||
| ଟୁନ | tuna | 58.64 |
| ତୁନ | tuna | 15.91 |
| ଟୁଂ | tum | 8.64 |
| ଟୂନ | tuna | 4.77 |
| ତୁନ୍ | tun | 4.32 |
| ତୁଂ | tum | 3.64 |
| ଟୁନ୍ | tun | 0.91 |
| Tun in the Hindi language | ||
| तुन | tuna | 41.69 |
| टुन | tuna | 38.41 |
| तून | tuna | 11.71 |
| टून | tuna | 4.22 |
| खातुन | khatuna | 3.28 |
| टुन् | tun | 0.23 |
| Tun in the Russian language | ||
| Тун | tun | - |
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